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NEWS: Delaware’s congressional delegation, local leaders sound the alarm on cuts to food assistance in Republican budget bill
NEWARK, Del. – U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative Sarah McBride (all D-Del.) today joined healthcare providers, food security advocates, environmental leaders, and working Delawareans at the Food Bank of Delaware to denounce the Republican budget bill signed into law by President Trump last week that will take food assistance away from as […]
Read MoreNEWS: Blunt Rochester Leads 32 Colleagues in Resolution Recognizing Black Women’s Equal Pay Day
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) led 32 of her colleagues in introducing a resolution honoring Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. In the United States, Black women workers are paid just 66 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic White men. If current trends continue, Black women will have to wait, on average, over 200 […]
Read MoreWATCH: Senator Blunt Rochester Defends Public Broadcasting Ahead of Proposed Republican Cuts
Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) joined her Democratic colleagues in opposition to President Trump’s $9.4 billion rescissions request to cut funding already appropriated by Congress. She made clear that the proposed $1.1 billion in funding cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be detrimental to families and […]
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