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. Updated August 22: all eight of Alabama's food banks asked him by name for a SNAP waiver. Britt — who isn't on the Agriculture Committee — replied. Tuberville, who is, did not.
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.
More than 27% of households in Valadao's Central Valley district get SNAP, against 17% nationally. He voted for the bill that cut it — which cleared the House 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 was gone by April.
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 nearly every Republican in Congress 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.
Utah ranks 10th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the healthiest states in the country. Its three House Republicans voted for a law KFF projects will leave 77,000 more Utahns uninsured anyway.
Nebraska ranks 23rd of 50 on the measures we track. Its senator told a Kearney town hall he'd warned the White House its tariffs were 'hurting Americans' — then voted three times to keep them.
