Americans brace for welfare cuts in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

About 16% of West Virginians rely on a federal food subsidy programme that is facing big cuts.

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Along with 42 million Americans, she pays for those groceries with federal food subsides. That cash doesn't cover the whole bill for her family of three.

"Our food doesn't even last the month," she says. "I'm going to all these different places just to make sure that we have enough food to last us the whole month."

But that money may soon run out, as Congress gears up to vote on what US President Donald Trump has coined his "big beautiful bill".

The food subsidy programme that Ms Butler uses - called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP - is one of many items on the chopping block, as Congress tries to reconcile the president's seemingly conflicting demands to both lower taxes and balance the budget.