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Gregg Hull, the MAGA Republican running for governor of New Mexico, said Medicaid, SNAP food benefits and free child care "empower this type of failure," and claimed New Mexicans have been "convinced that this is a lifestyle" so they "don't have to do anything" for themselves.
At two campaign stops, the Republican nominee for New Mexico governor listed Medicaid, SNAP and free child care, then said 'we empower this type of failure' and that people have been 'convinced that this is a lifestyle.' Hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans rely on them.
A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.
Demuth released her education plan on September 10. It would means-test Minnesota's universal school meals, opt the state into the $1,700 scholarship tax credit from Trump's budget bill, let districts opt out of paid family leave, and remove 'woke' standards she could not name.
Texas ranks 40th of 50 on the measures we track, with the second-worst food insecurity and second-worst women's health scores in the country. Greg Abbott signed the abortion ban and the school voucher law, never expanded Medicaid, and now runs on affordability after property tax levies rose to $89.4 billion and home insurance premiums rose 79%. Here is the record, and what each of the seventeen Republicans running for reelection has been busy with.
Gill's Ending Restaurant Purchases with SNAP Act targets the $524 million Sen. Joni Ernst's office says ran through the program over two years in nine states. The program he calls a fast-food loophole is a federal option for SNAP recipients who cannot cook or store food. He voted for the $187 billion cut first.
Schools that feed every student for free qualify for funding tied to rates of SNAP participation. More than 5.6 million people have lost SNAP in a year — faster than the CBO predicted — and Florida's largest school district has already dropped universal free meals at all but 121 of its schools.
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Sarah Sanders made the effort to strip state control of AI out of the "One Big Beautiful Bill", but was OK with cuts to SNAP that will take food assistance from 25,000 Arkansans
A new statewide survey says 37% of Arkansans don't have enough food. In the Washington Post, the governor called Trump's budget bill a win for moving welfare recipients 'off the path to dependency.'
