More than a dozen leaders lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a unified front to defend a broad array of domestic and international aid programs that, they argued, sustain life.
Senate proposal could “wreak havoc on low-income families and struggling communities, and must not be supported,” the bishops said in a statement released on Thursday evening.
The Mass was celebrated just days after a shooting at an Alexandria ballpark in which Rep. Steve Scalise and others were injured while practicing for a charity baseball game.