Posted on 10/22/2025 8:11:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Republicans are discussing voting on a bill that would prevent millions of low-income Americans from losing access to food aid on Nov. 1.
The bill from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) would fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for the duration of the shutdown, which on Wednesday entered its 22nd day. The Department of Agriculture warned earlier this month that if the government shutdown dragged on “there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the Nation.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said in a brief interview that senators were discussing “some options,” though nothing had been scheduled yet. With the Senate set to leave town on Thursday, and the legislation not yet teed up, the earliest it could get a vote is the middle of next week absent an agreement with Democrats.
Hawley, in a separate interview, confirmed there had been discussion about potentially bringing up his bill for a vote.
“If they don’t give it a vote then I’m going to take it to the floor and try to UC it or UC a vote agreement,” Hawley said, referring to seeking unanimous consent, or buy-in from all of his 99 colleagues, to either pass or vote on the bill.
Republicans have been warning about the SNAP cliff as a critical looming pain point of the government shutdown.
Republicans held off bringing up bills on specific programs or departments for the first phase of the shutdown. But as the funding lapse has dragged on, they’ve tried to increase political pressure on Democrats to test their resolve to oppose funding.
They previously brought up a Defense funding bill, which Democrats blocked last week. And they will vote Thursday on legislation from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)...
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They need to stop the anticipated ‘food riots’; not sure the Rats will comply
Yeah, go ahead and cave, ya wusses.
Um ... How about “NO!”?
SNAP benefits have nothing to do with feeding people and everything to do with subsidizing Walmart, Target, and the major grocery store chains.
Rioting is hard work. I doubt the average SNAPper will put any effort at all into rioting. Paid dem operatives is a different story.
In our town snap is used to support drug habits.
Trump needs to make sure rioting criminality will result I permanently lost eligibility.
Churches and charities can step up. Though many snappers would forego benefits before stopping to any reform efforts imposed by churches or charities.
i hate the gope.
You’re missing the sub-human element … I never watch TIC TOC but someone shared videos with me tonight …
Don’t cave to the freeloaders!
Lawn chairs.
wy69
From AI:
Please describe a typical SNAP recipient:
A typical SNAP recipient is part of a household that includes a child, an elderly individual, or a nonelderly individual with a disability, as four in five SNAP households fall into one of these categories.
Children are the largest group among participants, making up about 39% of all SNAP recipients, while 20% are elderly and 10% are nonelderly individuals with a disability.
The average SNAP household size is 1.9 people, and the average monthly benefit received is $332, or $177 per person.
Households with children receive a larger average monthly benefit of $574 due to their larger size.
73% of SNAP households have household income below the Federal Poverty Level.
“...try to UC it or UC a vote agreement...”
???
If they get the Democrats to agree on this, then they have no reason not to cave on military pay, and a dozen other popular things.
From their point of view, it is like when #6 was asked “Why did you resign?” Implicit in the question is that an answer will lead to total defeat for #6.
Let the food riots begin ! The stores will simply close and barricade their doors. No trucks will deliver fresh food. American cities will ALL become food “deserts.” Armed Americans will fight for their lives against marauding food thieves. The 40 million people in America left without their food stamps will plunge us back into medieval fighting. Two weeks of all-out fighting over food will set Western society back several hundred years.
Oh, find your gonads, Senators! Hang this around the democrats necks! It’s THEIR fault if people go hungry!
And the GOOBers start to crumble. Hakeem Skyhook Potatohead and his buddy, Mr. Raw Cheeseburger Schmear can already smell a win. The Snap, Crackle, Pop zombies should not receive any freebies until they report how much their mangy butts are being paid to riot against the Feds and the Gringo Americans.
Just start passing individual appropriation bills funding individual things like this for the remainder of this fiscal year *and* the entirety of the next.
See if the Dems will dare vote *against* these and other funding measures to keep their silly charade going.
No more CRs.
Ive seen a BUNCH of ‘Republicans are going to cave” articles out of leftist media. Its their normal, insulated bubble, fake news meant to push a narrative. Polls show NO such movement, in fact, the opposite.
Any bill passed in the Senate other than the clean CR passed by the House will require the House to reconvene. If the House reconvenes to vote on a new Senate bill, the first order of business will be to swear in Arizona Democrat Representative Adelita Grijalva, who already declared that she would immediately file a discharge motion to force the Epstein files out of committee for a full floor vote.
When that happens, you can forget about voting on any Senate compromise bills.
-PJ
lol - well that post escalated quickly.
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