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Senate Republicans Reject Bill to Fund SNAP Benefits During Shutdown

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said the bill was a ruse.
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Senate Republicans Reject Bill to Fund SNAP Benefits During Shutdown
People shop for food at a store in New York City, in this file photograph. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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Joseph Lord
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WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans on Tuesday voted down a Democratic bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through the government shutdown.

As tens of millions of Americans stare down the prospect of going hungry beginning Nov. 1, Senate Republicans rejected a unanimous consent bid by Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) to keep the program funded.

Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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