Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic-led effort to keep federal food aid programs funded, raising the likelihood that benefits to roughly 42 million Americans will lapse at the end of the week if the government shutdown continues.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said on the Senate floor Wednesday that the bill introduced by Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., which would extend funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program past Nov. 1, was a “cynical attempt to buy political cover for Democrats to allow them to carry on their government shutdown even longer.”
“We’re not going to let them pick winners and losers,” Thune said on the 29th day of the shutdown.
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