Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday blamed Republicans for allowing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, commonly known as food stamps, to lapse amid the government shutdown. The Agriculture Department recently announced it will not tap the program’s contingency funds to keep benefits flowing during the impasse. “Bottom line, the well has run dry,” the department said in advisory on its website. “At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 0

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Tuesday backed off the idea of forcing votes on so-called rifle shot funding bills to pay some federal workers during the shutdown, including troops and air traffic controllers. “This piecemeal approach, where you do one-off here, one-off there to make it seem more politically palatable to somebody or less painful, that’s just the wrong way to do this,” he told reporters on the 28th day of the shutdown. “There’s just a simple way to do it — it’s to pic

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Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, is urging his colleagues to support a bill he is sponsoring that would fund the SNAP program through the shutdown. The Department of Agriculture said federal food aid will not go out on Nov. 1. “My view is that no child in this country ought to go to bed hungry because a bunch of politicians in Washington can't decide what they want to do, and they're intent on blaming each other,” Hawley told reporters on Tuesday. More than 40 million Americans who rely

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