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Washington – Every member of Connecticut's congressional delegation has asked the Trump administration to abandon a new rule they say would cut or eliminate benefits for as many as 45% of the state's food stamp recipients.
"This proposed rule dramatically undermines Connecticut's ability to assist families in need and will disproportionally impact our state's most vulnerable populations," the lawmakers wrote officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency in charge of the food stamp program.
The price of a new invention usually falls as more people adopt it, but prescription drug prices somehow defy gravity.
Connecticut residents, like all Americans, pay among the highest drug prices in the world, and prices keep climbing. We can't change the laws of physics, but we can and must change federal law to bring needed relief.
