In April the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a
denouncement of Paul Ryan's budget plan. They wrote him to complain:
On
behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, I write to
urge you to resist for moral and human reasons unacceptable cuts to
hunger and nutrition programs. The committee has been instructed to
reduce agricultural programs by an additional $33.2 billion. In
allocating these reductions, the committee should protect essential
programs that serve poor and hungry people over subsidies that assist
large and relatively well-off agricultural enterprises. Cuts to
nutrition programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and
workers who cannot find employment. These cuts are unjustified and
wrong. If cuts are necessary, the committee should first look towards
reducing and targeting commodity and subsidy programs that
disproportionately go to large growers and agribusiness.
We'll see if they stick to their guns.
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In April the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a denouncement of Paul Ryan's budget plan. They wrote him to complain:
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