With federal funding cuts taking chunks of money away from many nonprofits' annual operating budgets, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) visited Winchester on Wednesday morning to hear first-hand accounts of how this is affecting the community.

"I really want to hear from you all so that we can prioritize our work [in Washington]," Kaine told 16 representatives from nonprofit agencies across the region at the outset of Wednesday's gathering on the Our Health campus on North Cameron Street.

Specifically, Kaine wanted to hear how the Trump administration's across-the-board funding cuts for nonprofits in his Big Beautiful Bill , plus the president's order to withhold federal financial support for any agency that provides services to undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ individuals and people who we

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