{"id":20208,"date":"2025-10-29T20:46:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:46:32","slug":"snap-benefits-set-for-first-ever-lapse-with-senate-set-to-reject-funding-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20208","title":{"rendered":"SNAP benefits set for first-ever lapse with Senate set to reject funding patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Senate Republicans will block a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/28\/congress\/lujan-hawley-snap-food-aid-bill-shutdown-00626416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic bill<\/a>&nbsp;that would keep federal food aid flowing to 42 million Americans as they try to build pressure to reopen the government, Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thune separately told reporters that if the Senate starts \u201cgoing down the road of \u2026 take care of this group or that group \u2026 it just begs the larger question, how long is this going to drag on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats and even privately some Republican lawmakers argue the Trump administration has the legal authority to tap a $5 billion contingency fund, or other USDA funds, to ensure SNAP benefits keep flowing during the shutdown. Dozens of Democratic governors and attorneys general have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/25-states-sue-trump-snap-food-aid-shutdown-00625431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued the administration<\/a>&nbsp;over its decision not to tap those funds.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/snap-benefits-set-for-first-ever-lapse-with-senate-set-to-reject-funding-patches-00627280\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/snap-benefits-set-for-first-ever-lapse-with-senate-set-to-reject-funding-patches-00627280<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senate Republicans will block a Democratic bill that would keep federal food aid flowing to 42 million Americans as they try to build pressure to reopen the government, Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thune separately told reporters that if the Senate starts \u201cgoing down the road of \u2026 take care of this group or that group \u2026 it just begs the larger question, how long is this going to drag on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and even privately some Republican lawmakers argue the Trump administration has the legal authority to tap a $5 billion contingency fund, or other USDA funds, to ensure SNAP benefits keep flowing during the shutdown. Dozens of Democratic governors and attorneys general have sued the administration over its decision not to tap those funds.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/snap-benefits-set-for-first-ever-lapse-with-senate-set-to-reject-funding-patches-00627280<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,1262,725,1817,334,73,506,865,1103,150],"class_list":["post-20208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-food","tag-government-shutdown","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-shutdowns","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20209,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions\/20209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}