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Delaware’s federal representatives come out against Trump-backed food stamp cuts

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July 11, 2025

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Delaware’s federal representatives come out against Trump-backed food stamp cuts

Delaware’s federal delegation criticized cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program resulting from the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act.”
The cuts, projected to impact 37,000 Delawareans, are the largest in SNAP’s history and will reduce funding by over $186 billion through 2034.
The delegation expressed concern about the expanded work requirements and increased burden on states to provide assistance.
Food Bank of Delaware anticipates increased demand and reduced federal support, impacting their ability to serve those in need.

Delaware’s federal delegation was fired up at the Food Bank of Delaware on Friday morning.

The state’s Democratic federal delegation stood in front of volunteers of the food bank and spoke out against cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, or food stamps. Sens. Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons, and Rep. Sarah McBride spoke at a press conference on July 11 at the Newark facility to address the passage of the Trump-backed “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” which features major cuts to Medicaid and SNAP eligibility.

They said 37,000 Delawareans could lose access to SNAP benefits.

“Last week, President Trump signed into law his so called Big, Beautiful Bill, which is going to have ugly consequences,” Coons said. “It will cost people their health care and their food. 37,000 will lose access to help making sure they’re not hungry.”

It is the largest cut to the program’s history, taking away over $186 billion through 2034, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Food stamps have been around since the Great Depression era, and SNAP was made permanent under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Delaware delegation voted against and said it intends to mitigate how cuts to SNAP affect Delaware. Coons said he will find ways to collaborate with state leaders. For him, it starts with educating people about what is actually in the gargantuan bill.

“I want to make sure that to the extent I can get answers out of the administration, I’m helping the state understand exactly what the impact is going to be,” Coons said.

SNAP benefits will be harder to come by with the new law because of expanded and stricter work requirements and a larger burden on individual states to provide assistance. It could have far-reaching consequences on lower-income families and individuals.

Census data estimates that 10% of Delaware residents live in poverty. For Blunt Rochester, the bill was “deceitful.”

“There is a reality that in Delaware, nearly half of the families that are receiving SNAP have children in them, and children can’t learn if they’re hungry,” she said.

McBride spoke about the cuts to the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, which created cooperative agreements to provide funding for state governments to purchase foods produced within the state or region to help support local, and regional producers, according to the USDA.

She said the “win-win” program in Delaware was vital to supporting small farms in places with limited access to nutritious food.

“They dismantled the infrastructure that helps fuel our economy and feed our communities,” McBride said at the press conference “This is a betrayal. This budget portrays our values as Americans, and it portrays our values as state leaders.”

The Food Bank of Delaware is concerned about a rise in demand and less federal assistance to give it a boost. The Food Banks’s Vice President of External Affairs Chad Robinson said the cuts to SNAP and other food assistance programs will make it more difficult to put food on the table for some people.

“These cuts represent the equivalent of 6 billion meals, which is the amount that Feeding America gave nationally last year,” Robinson said. “So we’re going to do everything we can to make sure the Delawareans have an opportunity to have the food on their table that they need.”

McBride brought Newark resident Elizabeth Morales and her daughter with her. Morales said SNAP benefits gave her a way to get back on her feet despite being laid off in 2023. She called the cuts “theft,” and dispelled the notion that SNAP benefits are a “handout.”

“It doesn’t discourage people from working, whether they’re working, looking for work, or just trying to get through a hard season,” she said. “It helps people stay afloat.”

Shane Brennan covers Wilmington and other Delaware issues. Reach out with ideas, tips or feedback at slbrennan@delawareonline.com.

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Delaware Lottery Mega Millions, Play 3 Day winning numbers for Dec. 16, 2025

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December 17, 2025

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Delaware Lottery Mega Millions, Play 3 Day winning numbers for Dec. 16, 2025

The Delaware Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025 results for each game:

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How long do I have to claim my prize in Delaware?

Tickets are valid for up to one year past the drawing date for drawing game prizes or within one year of the announced end of sales for Instant Games, according to delottery.com.

When are the Delaware Lottery drawings held?

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Trump will go to Delaware for the dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria

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December 16, 2025

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Trump will go to Delaware for the dignified transfer of the 2 National Guard members killed in Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert that is testing the rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.

The two guardsmen killed in the attack on Saturday were Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, according to the U.S. Army. Both were members of the 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment. A U.S. civilian working as an interpreter was also killed.

The ritual at Dover Air Force Base honors U.S. service members killed in action and is one of the most solemn duties undertaken by the commander in chief.

During the process, transfer cases draped with the American flag holding the remains of fallen soldiers are carried from the military aircraft that carried them to Dover to an awaiting vehicle to transport them to the mortuary facility at the base. There, the fallen service members are prepared for their final resting place.

Trump, a Republican, said during his first term that witnessing the dignified transfer of service members’ remains is “the toughest thing I have to do” as president.

Remembered as ‘the best of Iowa’

The Iowa National Guard is remembering the two men as heroes. Howard’s stepfather, Jeffrey Bunn, said Howard “loved what he was doing and would be the first in and last out,” noting that he had wanted to be a soldier since he was a young boy.

In a post on the Meskwaki Nation Police Department’s Facebook page, Bunn – who is chief of the Tama, Iowa, department – called Howard a loving husband and an “amazing man of faith” and said Howard’s brother, a staff sergeant in the Iowa National Guard, would escort “Nate” back to Iowa.

Torres-Tovar was remembered as a “very positive” person who was family oriented and someone who always put others first, according to fellow guardsmen who were deployed with Torres-Tovar and issued a statement to the local TV broadcast station WOI.

“They were dedicated professionals and cherished members of our Guard family who represented the best of Iowa,” said Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborn, adjutant general of the Iowa National Guard.

Trump stands by Syrian leader al-Sharaa

On Saturday, Trump told reporters that he was mourning the deaths and vowed retaliation.

Trump said Monday that he remained confident in the leadership of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the onetime leader of an Islamic insurgent group who led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad, whose family had an iron grip on Syrian rule for decades.

The U.S. president welcomed al-Sharaa to Washington last month for a historic visit to the White House and formally welcomed Syria as a member of the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State group. Hundreds of U.S. troops are deployed in eastern Syria as part of a coalition fighting IS.

“This had nothing to do with him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “This had to do with ISIS.”

Three other members of the Iowa National Guard were injured in the attack. As of Monday, two were in stable condition and the other in good condition. The Pentagon has not identified them.

Trump traveled to Dover several times during his first term to honor the fallen, including for a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during a raid in Yemen, for two Army officers whose helicopter crashed in Afghanistan and for two Army soldiers killed in Afghanistan when a person dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire.

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Delaware will save more than $300M after federal tax decoupling takes effect

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December 16, 2025

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Delaware will save more than 0M after federal tax decoupling takes effect

The fiscal year 2027 forecast remained relatively flat from the October meeting. But some expenses declined, including salaries for teachers. Brian Maxwell, state director of Management and Budget, said teacher salary expenses were down because student enrollment has dropped. He said federal immigration policy could be impacting the state’s Multilingual Learners.

“Obviously, there have been a number of students that may not be showing up to class just because of the enforcement of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement],” he said. “So some of the families may be scared to actually send their kids to school.”

Maxwell said overall enrollment is down, but the number of students needing special education services is up. The next student count is in February.

DEFAC members also discussed the revised Healthcare Spending benchmark. In September, the subcommittee devised a methodology that only used healthcare inflation, resulting in a 7.13% for 2026.

“We all gathered in October and there was a fair amount of concern with that outcome,” said Christen Linke Young, director of Health and Social Services. “So the subcommittee reconvened earlier this month to consider a new approach.”

After adopting the methodology using expected national inflation data and a three-year measure of health care cost growth, the benchmark now sits at 4.9%. But Young said there would be no penalty for hospitals exceeding the guideline.

Gov. Meyer and the state’s largest nongovernmental employer, ChristianaCare Health System, reached an agreement earlier this year in a lawsuit the regional hospital system filed last year. The Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board was created by lawmakers in June 2024 to try to rein in hospital spending. But the agreement, which requires new legislation and the governor’s signature, would strip the board of its authority to approve and modify hospital budgets.

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