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Earlier this year, Trump’s Big Ugly Bill slashed SNAP benefits for two million vulnerable Americans. Now, Congressional Republicans are pushing a spending bill that continues devastating cuts to healthcare and food assistance, and enables deep cuts to clean water and other critical programs. Trump is using the SNAP program as a bargaining chip, demanding that Senate Democrats accept a harmful spending bill with no negotiation. Trump’s cruelty has gone so far as to block emergency funds that could keep SNAP running during the shutdown, forcing families to go hungry. Without November benefits, millions of families on SNAP face impossible choices: food or rent, medicine or meals – all while grocery chains and meatpacking conglomerates report record profits from Trump’s tax cuts and surging grocery prices. Congress needs to put food back on the table for struggling families by passing a bipartisan spending bill that protects food access! Your Representative needs to hear from you right now: SNAP must be fully funded — no backdoor cuts. Onward together,
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Rebecca Wolf Senior Food Policy Analyst Food & Water Watch P.S. Read more on our website about the reasons why, despite Trump’s claims, this shutdown is his own doing.
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