Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday said Republicans should put a bill that fully funds the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program up for a vote days before the current funding is set to run out due to the government shutdown, the New York Post reported.
The Keep SNAP Funded Act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., last week, already has 10 GOP senators and Democrat Peter Welch of Vermont as co-sponsors, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has resisted requests for smaller, separate spending bills after the Schumer-led Democrats voted 13 times to keep the government shut down since the beginning of this month.
Schumer said in a floor speech before affirming he and other Democrats would vote for Hawley’s bill that “just weeks ago, Trump’s own U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed in writing that contingency funds — about $6 billion in emergency reserves — were ‘available to fund participant benefits.’
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