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

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

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

It won't happen immediately, but experts say that changes to the SNAP program -- food stamps -- in the budget reconciliation bill signed last week will deliver "a devastating blow" to many of the 680, ...

Rep. Val Hoyle, a Democrat from Springfield, said the bill will reduce the state’s access to healthcare and imperil Oregon’s ...

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

Retired professor Larry White says the email message he got on July 4 from the Social Security Administration was unlike any ...

WASHINGTON D.C.- Oregon U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley is introducing two new bills this week for wildfire reduction as well as ...

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” signed July 4, includes a one-year moratorium on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood that ...

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Democrats used a Louisiana town hall Thursday night to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S.