Ty Jones Cox
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Protect and strengthen the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), our nation’s most important and effective anti-hunger program or cut future benefits for all SNAP participants and erode the adequacy of SNAP benefits over time?
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One tool of Senate procedure—the budget reconciliation process—provides a limited end run around the filibuster. The reconciliation process allows a certain subset of legislation to pass with a simple majority.
"Never in our lifetime has there been a piece of legislation which goes as far as this does to address the long-neglected needs of the working class and the middle class of this country."
The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.
If Lightfoot wanted to plug the budget hole without cutting services and freezing hiring, the money is there. But don’t count on it—not without a fight.
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