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- Transcript Telephone town hall event taking place in just a few moments. Please stay on the line and you will be automatically connected or press 1 on your telephone keypad to join right now. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. If you would like to be removed from Future calls, please press 9 on your telephone keypad now. Hi, this is Val with Senator Vincent Hughes office. We are calling you live to invite you to join our interactive telephone town hall event taking place in just a few moments. Dramatically federal support for all different kinds of programs. We've had conversations about medical and healthcare. We've had conversations about the potential cuts that are coming in education. Tonight's conversation is about the federal cuts that are coming, the proposed federal cuts that are coming, the cuts that have been already voted on by the United States Congress and are being now negotiated in the U.S. senate. We're talking about the cuts in food support programs. Food food. Now I will remind folks that we are the United States of America is the richest country in the history of the world. No country has amassed the kind of riches and resources that the United States has amassed. But in that time of abundance, folks are talking about cutting food supports for families who are clearly in need. We have experts in the field who are prepared to discuss in some detail and answer all of your questions. And of course, I will remind you, please press star3 press star3 to get your question in the queue and we'll do our best to get as many folks as possible. So I'm going to open up the conversation and would like our first guest to provide a minute, minute and a half statement about their particular area of interest and their concern about these proposed really terrible cuts in food support programs. And that's Michael Howes. Michael is the vice president of the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association. Michael, thanks for joining us on our telephone town hall. How are you doing this evening? Hey, Senator, thank you very much. Appreciate the invitation to participate. Thanks to you and your team. My name is Mike Howells. I work for the Pennsylvania Food Merchants association and we're a statewide trade association representing businesses really up and down the food supply chain operating here in Pennsylvania. So across the state, that's somewhere around 600 businesses operating more than 3,000 retail locations employing somewhere north of 300,000 folks. In Philadelphia, that's somewhere north of 140 stores with thousands of city residents employed and serving millions of customers each year. So in your district center, I think we're around two dozen stores, Acme Aldi, Think Fresh grocer giant, Save a Lot Shop right in the course of Wawa. So that's kind of the perspective I'd like to bring tonight. But again, happy to be on the call and share what information I have about what's going on in Washington right now with respect to food assistance and what we, the association, what our members are doing, too. So thank you again. Great. Thanks, Mike. Appreciate you, man. Thanks for jumping on this call. This evening, we'd also like to welcome the CEO of Feeding Pennsylvania, Julie Bancroft. Julie, welcome to our telephone town hall. Good evening.
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