Florida's governor-elect named Tarren Bragdon, founder of the Foundation for Government Accountability, as policy chair of his transition team. Public records show Bragdon's group handed a Florida lawmaker the draft of a 2024 bill loosening limits on how long teenagers can work. Bragdon and his wife gave Donalds' PAC $57,000.
A new USDA rule would end SNAP for 3.2 million households by the government's own count — many of them working families and seniors whose only problem is a little money in the bank.
The top food stamp benefit no longer covers a modestly priced meal in 99% of U.S. counties. Trump's budget bill, backed by every Arkansas Republican we track, requires future updates to the food stamp formula to be cost neutral, taking away the main tool for closing that gap in the most food-insecure state in America.
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Brandon Gill voted to slash food assistance, helping plunge Texas food stamp enrollment to a 17-year low while food banks report record-breaking lines.
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Brandon Gill introduced a bill to stop people from buying hot meals with food assistance, calling it a "fast-food loophole."
2.8 million Texans got SNAP in September, the fewest since 2009 and down 20.8% in a year — the steepest drop in two decades. Children are more than half the losses. Every Texas House Republican on this site voted for the budget bill that experts blame.
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David Valadao represents California's Central Valley, where more than 27% of households rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
Kentucky's SNAP rolls have dropped from 627,164 people last October to just under 547,000, and Gov. Andy Beshear says about 80,000 lost food aid because of the federal changes in Trump's budget bill — including 24,655 children and 6,572 seniors. Four of Kentucky's five Republican House members voted for it. The fifth, Thomas Massie, voted no.
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Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez voted twice for Donald Trump's budget bill that slashes nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP food assistance.
