10 GOP senators co-sponsor Hawley's SNAP funding bill

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Source: The Hill

Ten GOP senators have signed on to back Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown threatens a program lapse in November.

Republican Sens. James Lankford (Okla.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Bernie Moreno (Ohio), Kevin Cramer (N.D.), Bill Cassidy (La.), Katie Britt (Ala.), Jon Husted (Ohio) and John Cornyn (Texas) have formed a coalition to advance Hawley’s legislation.

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) remains the sole Democrat in the upper chamber to co-sponsor the bill.

The Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 would fund the food aid program for states across the country until the nearly-month-long government shutdown ends and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) can receive its allotments through appropriations or stopgap measures.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/10-gop-senators-co-sponsor-145641119.html

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1. Gosh what could the ten have done last month

In October they were cheering on trump. trump has abandoned them. EPSTEIN? Lack of a plan to end his catastrophe? Total failure of a human being trailed by sycophants. Not one of them brave enough to order a course correction. Why might that be?

[orangecrush]

2. Is the dam breaking?

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Seems more like performance art, too me. I'm thinking snowball's...

Chance in hell.

[orangecrush]

9. Thanks

[Javaman]

10. yup, kabuki theater. nothing more. nt

[Frasier Balzov]

3. Can they be trusted not to rescind it if it passes?

Democrats need to be making more noise about the rescission of compromises once made.

To me, rescission is the real reason for the shutdown.

Republicans have broken trust and rendered legislative compromise meaningless.

[House of Roberts]

5. How many of the above Republicans

are up for re-election?

[cstanleytech]

7. I suspect they are trying to protect the State level Republicans more than anything ATM.

Otherwise it might make their gerrymandering a moot issue.

[cstanleytech]

6. The Republicans are only doing this because so many red states rely on the assistance.

[Mawspam2]

8. They know it's not going anywhere.

First, you have to get it past the House (Johnson's balls are in Trump's pocket over Epstein), then you have to get Trump to sign it. Hint: HE WON'T!!

[Prairie Gates]

11. Completely unnecessary: there is already a $5 billion contingency fund to keep SNAP working

through the shutdown.

The fact is that Trump and his admin refuse to use it, and are pretending that it is not available.

This bill literally addresses a problem that they have cooked up themselves for the purpose of passing this bill, which they will try to poison pill with a continuing resolution in order to break the Dem blockade.

Here's their plan:

1) Refuse to fund SNAP through the existing $5 billion contingency fund (which was designed for just such occasions!)
2) Go all over media claiming the contingency fund is flawed somehow (see trashbag MAGA fluffer Jake Tapper making this case on his show)
3) Put forward an emergency funding bill
4) Tack on a last minute "clean CR" to break the shutdown
5) If Dems vote for it, they caved and ACA is gone. If they don't, they're to blame for SNAP expiration. Haha!

The whole thing is garbage. There is already money to fund SNAP through next summer.