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. More than half of the Texans who lost food assistance are children. Trump's budget bill first passed the House 215 to 214, and Gill voted yes twice when he could have stopped it.
Read the full story: Texas Food Stamp Enrollment Just Hit a 17-Year Low While Food Banks See Record Need. 17 Texas Republicans Voted Twice for the Law Driving It.
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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.