President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" cuts social safety net programs like SNAP to rein in government spending.

Food pantries across Oregon, already grappling with federal funding cuts, face a deepening crisis as reductions to the ...

Over a third of Oregonians rely on Medicaid via the Oregon Health Plan — in Malheur County, it's fully half of residents.

The bill will temporarily would add new tax deductions on tip, overtime and auto loans. STOCK PHOTO Washington (AP) — ...

In Washington, nearly one million people rely on SNAP benefits each month. With the new law in place, those benefits are ...

With the approval of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act last week, which includes $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and ...

Oregon’s almost entirely Democratic congressional delegation voted against the GOP tax and spending cut bill. Only U.S. Rep.

WASHINGTON D.C.- Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley introducing two new bills this week for wildfire reduction as well as timber and wood processing. The Wildfire Resilient Communities Act would both ...

NEW YORK — Federal budget cuts under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) will take a smaller bite out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) than previously ...

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Oregon will see rising rates of hunger and costly administrative backlogs due to the recently passed GOP megabill that cuts ...

South Carolina hospitals are set to take a multimillion-dollar annual cut when treating Medicaid patients as the new law pushed through Congress phases out a complicated program that boosted the ...