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Shutdown 'Beginning to Weigh' on Americans, Says Sen. Capito
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9:38Now PlayingSenator Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, tells Bloomberg's Balance of Power says the government shutdown is "beginning to weigh on the American people," as SNAP benefits set to expire at the end of October. Capito said that she would vote for Senator Josh Hawley's bill for fund that program if it came to the floor.
Democrat-led states sued the Trump administration over food aid benefits set to end for tens of millions of Americans, accusing US officials of unlawfully refusing to tap alternative sources of money during the federal government shutdown.
The US Department of Agriculture announced it won’t fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, starting in November as the budget impasse in Congress approaches the one-month mark. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the attorneys general and governors from 25 states and the District of Columbia argued the department must use nearly $6 billion in contingency funding to keep the program operational for as long as possible.
Later in the day, the state attorneys filed a request for the judge to immediately enter a temporary restraining order that blocks US officials from carrying out the directives that suspended SNAP funds and that requires them to take “every step necessary” to clear “hurdles” to making the money available in the jurisdictions that sued. According to the complaint, there are approximately 25 million program participants in those states and the District of Columbia. The judge set a hearing for Oct. 30.
The looming cutoff would deepen food insecurity for low-income households that rely on SNAP to buy groceries each month and exacerbate the strain on federal workers who aren’t being paid during the shutdown. More than 42 million people in 22 million households participate in the program, according to government data.
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