US EditionDemocrats, Republicans pitch competing SNAP bills: What to know
Congressional Democrats and Republicans clash over SNAP funding during the shutdown as 42 million people risk losing benefits, with $5 billion emergency funds held by the Trump administration.
- On Wednesday, Senate Democrats unveiled legislation to fund SNAP and WIC amid shutdown, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned no SNAP benefits will go out starting Nov. 1 unless the government reopens.
- Nearly a month into the shutdown, Senate Democrats have blocked a clean funding bill to keep the government open through November 21, while Republicans say Democrats must vote to reopen first.
- Several senators have publicly backed competing bills, including 11 GOP senators, with support from Democratic leaders, amid a lawsuit by more than 20 states citing $6 billion and $5 billion in emergency funds.
- The USDA estimates that 42 million people across 22 million households will lose benefits this weekend, marking the first SNAP lapse since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the program.
- Senate leadership, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., blocks fast-track efforts amid ongoing legal and legislative maneuvers on SNAP funding.
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Democrats, Republicans pitch competing SNAP bills: What to know
(The Hill) — Democrats and Republicans are pushing dueling bills to keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits funded through November, as the government shutdown threatens to cease the distribution of benefits on Saturday. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Tuesday said her department is legally prohibited from tapping into its contingency fund to keep SNAP benefits funded. It will cost the department $9.2 billion to…
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The opposition party is demanding that the secretary of agriculture use money appropriated by Congress, as well as the president’s tariff revenue, to keep children fed.
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