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Virginia’s Fourth District Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan said the pending cuts to SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, could impact about 34,000 of her constituents and the grocery stores that serve them, even those in rural Surry County.
“As I saw when I visited the only grocery store in Surry County, Surry Market, if they close people will have to drive at least 30 miles to get fresh food,” McClellan said Monday.
Democratic Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan joined several advocates to discuss the impacts SNAP cuts will have on Virginia’s budget at an event on Monday in Richmond.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the spending bill will cut $187 billion of federal funding by 2034, leaving hundreds of thousands of Virginia families at risk of losing SNAP benefits.
“SNAP not only keeps food on the table but, as you heard, it helps keep children healthy in the long term,” McClellan said.
In an article as a law student at the University of Virginia, future Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan rebutted as un-American a movement that had gained momentum to make English the nation’s official language.
In the nation’s early days, government accommodated language minorities, she noted. “The code of Virginia used to be printed in German because we had such a large German population,” McClellan, D-4th, said in an interview Thursday.
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, landmark legislation that outlawed racist voter disenfranchisement and expanded voting rights to Black Americans whose ability to cast a ballot had been severely limited, especially in Virginia and other states in the South. U.S. Rep.
To kick off connecting with her district during recess, Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Va., hosted a town hall geared toward seniors today. Around 60 attendees discussed their concerns about Social Security, Medicare, immigration and the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill.
“I call it the ‘One Big Ugly Bill,’ ‘The Big, Massive Frankenstein,’ whatever you want to call it,” McClellan said. “The bill that was signed on July 4. There’s a lot in there, and I’m not going to touch on every aspect of it.”
U.S. Rep. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, is pushing back against Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent claimsthat all 2,500 immigrants detained in statewide operations since March were violent offenders, saying Monday she doesn’t believe it — and won’t — until the administration provides proof.
The congresswoman says people aren't showing up to court “because they're afraid.”
US Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D–4th) met with officials at the Chesterfield County Courthouse Monday to voice concern that migrants who need to appear in court for relatively minor offenses are now choosing not to show up entirely to avoid being detained by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
Riverside Regional Jail in Prince George County has contracted with Immigration & Customs Enforcement authorities to house detainees at its facility, but questions loom over the details of the compact. That has one Virginia lawmaker worried, particularly about the conditions of the detention.
A Virginia congresswoman is speaking out about federal immigration authorities at the Chesterfield County Circuit Courthouse after more than a dozen arrests were made there in June.
Rep. Jennifer McClellan visited the courthouse Monday to discuss what she calls "overly aggressive immigration enforcement activities."
Concerns are growing at the Chesterfield County Court Complex after ICE agents detained more than a dozen people over the course of two months.
“These are folks who want to get marriage licenses, they want to come in become a notary, pay their fines, whatever it is, and they’re still scared. Even U.S. citizens are scared to come to court right now,” Amanda Pohl, Chesterfield County Circuit Court Clerk, said.