{"id":8248,"date":"2025-11-01T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2025-11-01T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T15:45:54","slug":"democrats-back-gop-plan-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=8248","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATS BACK GOP PLAN TO SAVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Senate Bipartisan Effort Amid Shutdown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the federal shutdown entered its fourth week,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a rare moment of unity emerged in the Senate to protect national food assistance programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Support for Hawley\u2019s Bill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic leaders, including Chuck Schumer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>backed Republican Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which ensures continued operation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDA warned that funding \u201ccould be exhausted within mere days,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>threatening aid for millions of low-income Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cross-Party Momentum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawley\u2019s bill gained ten Republican co-sponsors and broad bipartisan support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats led by Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n introduced a companion measure to fund the WIC program for \u201cwomen, infants, and children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ongoing Tensions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite cooperation, tensions persisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majority Leader John Thune accused Democrats of blocking earlier funding efforts,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even as private talks intensified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers face mounting pressure to act before November\u2019s $9.2 billion SNAP benefits are due.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Bipartisan Effort Amid Shutdown As the federal shutdown entered its fourth week, a rare moment of unity emerged in the Senate to protect national food assistance programs. Support for Hawley\u2019s Bill Democratic leaders, including Chuck Schumer, backed Republican Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s&nbsp;Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025, which ensures continued operation of the Supplemental Nutrition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}