(The Center Square) – At or on top of the list of complaints from Democrats on the budget reconciliation bill signed into law on Friday were slashes to government programs, namely Medicaid and SNAP.

First-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein estimated 500,000 North Carolinians would lose health care coverage and 1.4 million, including 600,000 children, “could find themselves without the help they need to afford food.”

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