Editorial: Work to replace what was taken from those in need

It’s enough to make you lose your lunch; in both senses of the phrase.

A little more than a month after President Trump signed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill into law, states and communities have only started their scramble in attempting to make up for far-reaching losses in federal funding for food assistance and health care for those in need.

The basic exchange in the legislation was an estimated $4.45 trillion in tax cuts — heavily weighted toward the wealthiest Americans and corporations — paid for in part with more than $1.1 trillion in cuts over the coming decade to federal aid programs including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps; not to mention the more than $3 trillion added to the national debt and future generations. Nationwide, that pullback of funding will deny health care services to 10.3 million people and food assistance for 22 million families.

“That’s just the math,” said U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., last week at a joint listening session with Gov. Bob Ferguson at Lynnwood Elementary, as the Edmonds School District wrapped up its summer free lunch program. “I don’t mean that as a political statement. It is literally just the math of the big ugly law here in Washington state.”

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I'm sure it's the same all over this country.