H.R. 8953 would let emergency food sites demand a photo ID, a piece of mail, or residency papers before handing out free food — reversing a USDA rule that banned exactly that. Yakym is the only sponsor. The problem he describes is people going to more than one pantry.
The House passed Crawford's rotisserie chicken amendment 384-35. It adds no money and helps nobody who has already been cut off — but the National Chicken Council loved it, and Tyson is on his donor list.
The farm supports went into Trump's budget bill and passed with a simple majority. Food aid got cut $187 billion. Then Frank Lucas voted for a 'skinny' farm bill that doesn't put back a dime — while 45,277 households in his own district are on SNAP.
The Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill died 10-11. Tuberville was present for other parts of the markup but not for the final vote, and his proxy vote didn't count.
Pillen turned down federal summer grocery money for Nebraska's low-income kids in December 2023. He reversed two months later — after a petition and after sitting down with children who were living it. The program he blocked delivered nearly $24 million in its first summer.
Valadao's Central Valley district has one of the highest SNAP rates in the country. He cast the deciding vote for the bill that cut it — the House passed it 215 to 214 — and told HuffPost the drop in enrollment doesn't worry him.
Unemployment hasn't moved. Grocery prices keep climbing. But SNAP enrollment has collapsed by 11% since Republicans passed their budget bill — and in Arizona, where all six Republicans voted yes, more than half the program is gone.
A 1,000-mile road trip through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky found people who can't afford toilet paper. The unemployment rate hasn't moved. The only thing that changed is the law all 23 Republicans from those states voted for.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut rank #1 through #4 on the 17 measures we track. Between them they send 25 people to Congress — and not one is a Republican. The four worst states send 24 Republicans.
