Hi, this is Congressman Joaquin cost throw at 210-3488 216. I'm calling to invite you to a live telephone town hall I'm hosting right now to join just stay on the line. I'll discuss the republican budget bill, which will strip many texans of healthcare, gut food assistance like Snap and more. I join our community in grieving the lives lost in devastating floods in central Texas as well. As the lives lost here in San Antonio in the fluence last month and will provide an update on recovery efforts and available resources. Again to participate, stay on the line to ask a question. Press star three. The call will begin momentarily. Please hold while we connect you to your access live event. This access live event is currently in progress. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded, or rebroadcast. Healthcare coverage. And those subsidies, some of those subsidies are now in jeopardy. So when you combine the Medicaid, the hit to Medicaid and the hit to subsidies like that, we're. Talking about a total of close to 17 million Americans that are impacted, and specifically in Texas. About 1.6 million Texans that will be impacted. Obviously, that will be thousands and thousands of people in San Antonio. And in my office. I want to make sure that we get ahead of that. These things will be rolled out over the next few years, so it's not going to all hit immediately. But if you encounter issues with any of these things, please feel free to give my office a call. And we'll try to be helpful. And I should have said at the beginning, of course, I represent the 20th district and the 20th district in San Antonio. Is the main congressional district, the way I like to think of it, because. There are parts of five congressional districts in San Antonio, but ours is the only one that's. Completely within our county. The other ones go out in different directions. And we've got about 800,000 people in our district. That includes. Part of the west side where I grew up. Big Chunk of northwest San Antonio, a slice of north central San Antonio. And then a part of the south side of San Antonio. So a wonderful district, an incredible district. But we will be hit by. Some of these cuts that have gone through because of this reconciliation bill. There are also cuts to food assistance, and that concerns me because San Antonio is a very working class town. People are working very hard day in and day out, but. There are also many folks who are able to benefit from the food bank, for example. So they get assistance at the food bank or. They're folks who will lose their job and they can't find a job for three or four or five months, and there are times where they need assistance. And this bill. Is going to make it harder. To get assistance. It's going to kick about 5 million people off of Snap. The Bill Bear county, of course, we know, is mostly in urban county, somewhat of a suburban county. Right, but nobody would call us outright rural county. Although if you go to the southern end of Bear county. You all know that there are some areas that obviously feel a little rural. But. For the rural counties in Texas. They're going to feel some pain as well, because. They're predicting that because of this bill, they're probably going to be about 15 rural hospitals that are projected to close in Texas. And since about 2005, I believe there have been over 100 hospitals in Texas that have closed many of those in rural areas. So the infrastructure for rural life. Is getting hit. So the last part of this, Bill, and then, of course, I'll take questions on it. After I go through the other things. But the tax cuts mostly benefit the very wealthy.