CHITTENANGO, N.Y. — It would make sense that the hometown of L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Wizard of Oz, would be in a county that voted for President Donald Trump.

Trump easily carried this part of upstate New York, which contains places just as rural as Dorothy Gale’s Kansas. But despite the nearby Yellow Brick Road Casino in a converted strip mall, there’s no Emerald City. So Republican members of Congress who represent these parts have a particular challenge and have to fight for federal dollars for their districts.

That might be getting more difficult with the recent release of Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget, which proposes significant cuts to programs that provide economically stagnant places like this a helping hand.

Take Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican representing a central New York district that has never fully rebounded from factory shutdowns and the closure of the old Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome.

“I’m for growing the economy, but you can’t pull the rug out from my constituents in two of the poorest small-metro city regions in my district: Utica-Rome and Binghamton,” Tenney says. “We need the social services support and some of the other issues that are being cut,” she says, adding that there are several items, including Community Development Block Grant funding, “that I just couldn’t support the cuts in them.”