Americans take care of the abbreviations of the welfare in the “Big Beautiful Account of Trump”

Elizabeth Butler moves from a supermarket to the next in her hometown of Martinsburg, West Virginia, to ensure that she will receive the best price for each item in his grocery list.

Together with 42 million Americans, she pays for these federal food foods. This money does not cover the whole account for her family of three.

“Our food doesn’t even last a month,” she says. “I go to all these different places, just to make sure we have enough food to keep us all the month.”

But this money can soon expire, as Congress is arranged to vote on what US President Donald Trump has introduced his “big beautiful bill”.

The food subsidization program that D -Butler uses – called an additional diet support program known as SNAP – is one of the many items in the cutting block, as Congress is trying to reconcile the president’s seemingly controversial demands for both more taxes and balance the budget.

The Senate must vote their version of the bill by the end of the week. If he passes, he will be voted by the House, at this point she will be sent to Trump to sign. He pressed both Congress palaces that the Republican Party controls to accept the bill until July 4.

Snap offers low-income households, including older Americans, families with children and people with disabilities, money every month to buy grocery. In Western Virginia, one of the United States with the highest poverty rates, 16% of the population depends on the benefit.

The state is also a reliable Republican fortress and voted predominantly for Trump in November when he fulfilled the promise to reduce the costs of living of Americans, including the cost of food.

“When I win, I will immediately lower the prices, starting from day one,” he said at a press conference in August, surrounded by packaged foods, milk, meat and eggs.

Months after the president made this bet, the prices of frequently purchased grocery such as orange juice, eggs and bacon are higher than they were last year.

It is a fact that has not gone unnoticed by Gi Butler: “The president has not yet changed food prices and he promised people he would do so.”

Trump claims that without explaining that the reduction of costs in the budget bill per 1000 pages will help reduce food prices: “Discontinuation will give all much more food as prices are reducing, food is reduced,” Trump said when asked specifically for cuts to click.

“A large, beautiful bill will eventually strengthen clicking through measures to share costs and requirements for the work of common sense,” a White House official told the BBC.

Republicans have long been separated how to fund social care programs such as Snap and Medicaid. While many believe the government should prioritize budget balancing, others, especially in impoverished regions, support programs that directly help their voters.

While the bill is standing, the Senate Republicans offer $ 211 billion ($ 154 billion) in cuts, with countries being partially responsible for making the difference.

In theory, the passage of the bill should be an easy political lift, as Republicans control both the Congress and the White House.

But since the bill includes cuts for programs such as SNAP and Medicaid, which are popular with everyday Americans, the sale of all factions in the Republican Party was not an easy feat.

Private impotence and disagreement reports on the potential abbreviations of Medicaid and SNAP have expired in recent weeks, showing that internal struggle is happening within the party.

Western Virginia Senator Jim justice told Politico in June that he had warned fellow Republicans that the cut of SNAP could cost the party of their majority in congress when voters again headed for the urns in 2026.

“If we are not careful, people will get hurt, people will be upset. It will be something # 1 in the night news everywhere,” justice said. “And then we could wake up in a situation in this country where the majority quickly becomes a minority.”

A recent poll of the Associated Press/NORK Center for Public Affairs Research 45% of Americans have found that food support programs such as SNAP are under -funded, while only 30% believe that funding levels are adequate. About a quarter of the respondents found that the programs had been removed.

This is not the first time the party has been fighting SNAP cuts, said Tracy Rover, a professor at the University of Richmond, who is currently writing a book on SNAP’s political history.

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“One thing about (SNAP) is that it has biparty support, more than any other poverty program,” Prof. Coveno told the BBC.

But this time she feels different, she said.

“One thing that distinguishes this period from previous efforts to reduce social assistance programs is the wish of Republicans in Congress to vote for things that many of them are obviously from the record, have a lot of concern,” she said. “Before there were always moderate Republicans, especially in the Senate, but in both houses that were reported for discounts.”

She attributes this submission to two things: fear of climbing on the wrong side of Trump and the lack of fear of a public reaction for representatives who occupy places in the congress that can easily be re -elected.

The BBC contacted Congressman Riley Moore, who represents Martinsburg, West Virginia, about the impact of the cuts of his constituents, but he did not answer.

Moore voted for the original home bill that included click cuts.

Missouri Senator Josh Hooley, who was one of the most vocal critics of the cuts, has since softened: Holey told the Notus newsletter that he “has always supported” most of Medicaid cuts and will be “well” with most of what is in the bill.

The father of two Jordan, who demanded his surname not to use, has spent the last three years surviving Snap benefits.

He and his wife receive about $ 700 a month to feed their family four, but still fight.

The 26-year-old says his wife has struggled to work and take care of her two children at the same time, so if he changes to click on his family, he is ready to act and get a second job.

“I will make sure I can do my best to feed my family,” he says.

He and other Western Virginians follow what is happening with the Congress Bill.

Cameron Whitzel, 25 -year -old, grew up in a family dependent on Snap. But when he and his wife tried to apply for SNAP, he learned that making $ 15 an hour was too much to qualify, he said.

“It’s not a great fact that I have to double my salary so that I can afford food,” said G -n -Whitzel, adding “we haven’t bought any eggs for four months, just because they are too expensive.”

He is disappointed that employees in Washington do not understand the impact of the abbreviations they support in congress, he said.

“To make a federal section, which will then be placed on the country that is already struggling, just feels like a horse kick while it is down,” says G -n -Whitzel. “Whether you believe in the small government or the great government, the government must provide someone in some way.”

With additional reporting from Bernd Debusmann JR