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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We know the average SNAP benefit and how many households are recipients of SNAP.. The other relevant issue is how much other assistance SNAP recipients receive from other programs. For example how many children receiving SNAP also receive free breakfast, lunch, and possibly dinner at school? How much free food is obtained at food banks? What about housing subsidies and Social Security disability payments? It would also be of interest to know how much fraud there is in the program.
More than a 1/8th of the US population on food stamps. This is a huge part of the plan to keep them on the plantation of mo’ government.
In 20 years, the 1/8th with be 1/4!! Slowly but surely. Meanwhile, those government officials like Hawley are making big bucks as the Coke Cola’s and Mar’s Candies of the world tell them to keep that SNAP spigot on!!
They should eliminate the program to save taxpayers money and continue eliminating every government handout programs until none exist.
No kings was mocked. NewsomObama show didnt have 300 watchers.
Maybe the dems will project outrage the reos are starving poor people?
But maybe people are seeing through the contrived outrage?
20% of SNAP recipients are elderly Americans. Not all are the morbidly obese gorillas we see raging on social media.
Exacting right. This is BS, don’t pay the military but keep the money flowing to the gimme dats. No.
42 million divided by 342 million = 12.28%. or approximately 1 out of 8.
I was going with 380 million, doing my best to factor in all the illegals (which is likely STILL an underestimate). Right after they get their fake ID documents nearly all of them use them to get SNAP and whatever else they can snag from the state they’ve invaded.
But even so, I erred on the math. It’s 10 to 11 percent, closely matching the Federal Poverty Line.
Which is hard to judge itself as wages and costs of living vary widely depending on states/regions.
Thank you for the explanation. Either way, too many people are receiving taxpayer funded handouts.
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