The government shutdown has cut off SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans, including 16 million children. This is not a policy debate; it’s a moral failure. No one in America should have to choose between food and health care.
SNAP helps families, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities put food on the table. Yet, instead of extending vital tax credits that make health insurance more affordable, congressional leaders have shut down the government and now risks pushing millions deeper into poverty. Legislators are holding food and health care hostage while the wealthy get tax breaks,
Though a federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration to use emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown, it’s not clear when these benefits — or how much of them — will be released. The administration must immediately release emergency funds to ensure full SNAP benefits are paid.
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SNAP, health care fight a moral failure
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By Barbara Rodman | Phoenix
The government shutdown has cut off SNAP benefits for 40 million Americans, including 16 million children. This is not a policy debate; it’s a moral failure. No one in America should have to choose between food and health care.
SNAP helps families, seniors, veterans and people with disabilities put food on the table. Yet, instead of extending vital tax credits that make health insurance more affordable, congressional leaders have shut down the government and now risks pushing millions deeper into poverty. Legislators are holding food and health care hostage while the wealthy get tax breaks,
Though a federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration to use emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits during the shutdown, it’s not clear when these benefits — or how much of them — will be released. The administration must immediately release emergency funds to ensure full SNAP benefits are paid.
Congress must stop putting politics over people and get back to work enacting a bipartisan budget that funds SNAP, protects health care and ends this needless shutdown.
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