SOKY Indivisible hosts protest in downtown Bowling Green for Snap & Medicaid losses

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A group of protestors made their way from the First Christian Church to Pioneer Cemetery in Bowling Green, making their voices heard against the One Big Beautiful Bill, namely the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid benefits.

“We’re mourning the loss of services. The cuts are going to hurt so many people in our community and across the state and the nation. The loss of Medicaid funding and SNAP funding and recent medical research… all of that’s going to have huge impacts on all of us, not just the poor. So we’re just mourning the fact that we’re losing our services,” Cathy Severns with SOKY Indivisible said.

Their main goal is to speak with representatives and senators to make them aware of what exactly is happening.

“I just wish they would listen to us. I wish they would just sit down and talk to us. None of them have. We asked for Representative Guthrie to have a town hall back in March… I would like a conversation in a room with him, and also I’d like others to know that we’re just out here because we care about our country, we love our country,” protestor Stephanie Morris said.

Both Morris and Severns are thankful for everyone who braved the heat to get the message out there.

“It helps us to be together and know that there are others that feel the same way. It helps our spirits, which we’ve been so down… this is hard. This is hard work… but when we come together, we know that there’s strength in numbers,” Severns said.

“It’s a good group of people who also care about this community and about our country,” Morris added.