Hurricane Helene victim describes need for federal support as children need care but family barely gets by

North Carolina resident and Moms Rising member Marybeth Cochran says at a news event on the US Capitol steps as the House of Representatives considered a budget resolution providing for reconciliation that lawmakers needed to put families over billionaires and reject cuts to programs, as grandchildren meant the world to the speaker who worked hard to ensure they had everything they needed despite living on a fixed income supplemented by an eight-dollar-per-hour part-time job at a coin laundry, which left the family barely making it and sometimes forced the speaker to skip prescription refills so the grandchildren would not miss meals, a situation that transcended partisan politics as a world issue concerning the care of children who represented the future, which made Republican cuts terrifying.