US lawmakers spar over food aid program facing uncertainty

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Source: Reuters

April 8, 2025 3:53 PM EDT Updated 4 hours ago


April 8 (Reuters) - Lawmakers clashed over the future of the nation's largest food aid program during U.S. House and Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on Tuesday, previewing a partisan fight over the issue in farm bill negotiations. The conflict over potential cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has flared in the ongoing budget reconciliation process and could serve as a roadblock to passage of a new farm bill this year.

The House Republican budget plan would have the chamber's Agriculture Committee cut $230 billion as part of government-wide spending cuts to make way for President Donald Trump's $4.5-trillion tax and border security agenda.

Democrats fear those cuts would come from SNAP, which sends an average benefit of $187 to about 41 million low-income people monthly, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data. Any cuts to SNAP, also known as food stamps, would come as food prices climb, and as food banks strain under the twin pressures of high demand and cuts from the Trump administration.

SNAP cuts would also hurt farmers due to reduced spending on food, said Angie Craig, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, at Tuesday's hearing. "This cut would slash farm revenue by approximately $30 billion, on top of the markets they’re losing because of the dumbest trade war in history," she said.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-spar-over-food-aid-program-facing-uncertainty-2025-04-08/

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The Farm Bill battle is going to be a nightmare.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Richest country in the history of the world and we cannot afford to feed hungry Americans.

[Skittles]

3. the GOP prefers to feed the rich

yup

[Irish_Dem]

4. When they already have more money than they can spend in many lifetimes.

[Skittles]

5. those assholes NEVER have enough money

and they don't care who pays for it

[Irish_Dem]

6. It is pathological greed, a money addition. And it is destroying the world.

[Tarzanrock]

2. Monies which necessarily must be apportioned to greedy Billionaire Oligarchs

who are Republican Nazi Party gods. Hungry Americans be damned -- they deserve their suffering in the Fuhrer Turd's Amerika and co-Fuhrer Mu$k's Amerika. It's God's will that some "pigs" are far more equal and that they deserve massive "tax breaks" while hungry people starve and die.