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Katina Moss was surprised to receive a letter in the mail indicating she qualified for Medicaid coverage.
Moss, 51, who lives in Richmond, said she applied for coverage in 2020 or 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She completed the required forms online but was not sure if she had finished all of them.
As budget talks heat up in Washington, Southside Richmond resident Dana Wyatt is bracing for impact. After years of waiting for a housing choice voucher — a federally-funded program that operates like a rent coupon for qualifying tenants — she now fears she could lose it and once again become rent-burdened.
Several times during Rep. Jennifer McClellan’s town hall meeting June 2 at Virginia State University, the same question was asked but in different ways: “What can Democrats do to keep Donald Trump and the Republicans in check?”
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat, who represents the 4th District, held a town hall meeting recently to update citizens about issues and to hear their concerns.
Supervisor Dr. Barbara Jarrett Harris, Chair, Brunswick County Board of Supervisors, called the meeting to order and Supervisor Glenda Jackson Gilliam offered the invocation and led everyone in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan spoke straight, framing this moment in American history in two ways: A reckoning with our nation’s founding ideals of liberty and equality and a warning that the current political climate is stress-testing the very foundations of American democracy.
In the 1880s, my great grandfather founded a school in their rural community because the state of Alabama did not provide a good education to Black children.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, who represents Virginia’s fourth congressional district, is a veteran of Virginia politics. With Donald Trump entering his second term in office, Rep. McClellan and her colleagues have a political fight on their hands against MAGA Republicans who want to end the civil service, gut Social Security and move federal employees out of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
When I was 7 years old, I wrote President Jimmy Carter a letter. He was the first president I could remember, and whenever I saw him on the news, he seemed very kind. So, I invited him to dinner at our home in Matoaca, Virginia, confident that he would say yes. I just knew he would come.
Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan is working to ensure that every Veteran in the 4th District enjoys a heartfelt Valentine’s Day.
This year, McClellan introduced the 2025 Valentines for Veterans initiative, aimed at creating and delivering Valentine’s Day cards to veterans living in Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District.