{"id":8595,"date":"2025-10-31T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:50:30","slug":"democrats-introduce-bill-to-keep-snap-funded-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=8595","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Introduce Bill to Keep SNAP Funded in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the shutdown continues, SNAP benefits are scheduled to expire for millions of Americans on November 1. To counter this, some Democrats are pushing a hill designed to keep the funding floodgates open.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Visit your state page to pray.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From POLITICO:\n<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, led by Sen.\u00a0Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n\u00a0(D-N.M.), could draw Democratic support away from a rival bipartisan plan by Sen.\u00a0Josh Hawley\u00a0(R-Mo.), which pushes USDA and the Treasury Department to fully fund November benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program \u2014 the nation\u2019s largest anti-hunger initiative.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte__paragraph\">Luj\u00e1n\u2019s bill, on the other hand, would require the administration to fund both SNAP and a separate food aid program serving low-income women and children. It would also require that states be reimbursed for funding benefits during the shutdown.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte__paragraph\">Most of the Democratic caucus, including Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) and Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member\u00a0Amy Klobuchar\u00a0(D-Minn.), have signed onto the latest legislation, though it notably has yet to pick up any Republican co-sponsors.\n<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO notes that, if SNAP benefits do expire, it would be the first time in modern history. According to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, it would cost the USDA $9.2 billion to fund \u201cSNAP benefits, administrative costs and nutrition block grants for U.S. territories\u201d in November\u2014money the Secretary says her department does not have.\n<\/p>\n<p>Senator Luj\u00e1n, the standalone bill\u2019s sponsor, challenged this claim. He said in a statement, \u201cLet me be clear: the Trump administration has the authority and the funds to keep SNAP running.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders, meanwhile, do not seem keen to vote on the bill. Speaker Johnson reportedly called it a \u201cwaste of time\u201d to vote on standalone funding bills during a government shutdown.\n<\/p>\n<p>With SNAP benefits set to expire and the government shutdown entering its fifth week, let\u2019s pray!\n<\/p>\n<h4>How are you praying about SNAP and the shutdown? Share your prayers and scriptures below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from POLITICO. Photo Credit:\u00a0Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes As the shutdown continues, SNAP benefits are scheduled to expire for millions of Americans on November 1. To counter this, some Democrats are pushing a hill designed to keep the funding floodgates open. Visit your state page to pray. \u00a0 From POLITICO: The legislation, led by Sen.\u00a0Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n\u00a0(D-N.M.), could draw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[130,128,132,129,126,131],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-prayer","tag-bill","tag-democrats","tag-funded","tag-introduce","tag-november","tag-snap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}