Local officials and nonprofits urge appropriators not to cut health services as providers report funding shortfalls

Multiple speakers asked the subcommittee to avoid cuts to Department of Health programs and to consider the real-world effect of flat budgets.

Pat Sweeney and Brandon Roste of Healthy Wyoming told the committee the agency could not absorb cuts without "devastating impacts to our neediest community members," and urged lawmakers to at minimum hold funding steady for developmental-disability waivers and community supports.

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