10 GOP senators co-sponsor Hawley's SNAP funding bill

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11. Completely unnecessary: there is already a $5 billion contingency fund to keep SNAP working

through the shutdown.

The fact is that Trump and his admin refuse to use it, and are pretending that it is not available.

This bill literally addresses a problem that they have cooked up themselves for the purpose of passing this bill, which they will try to poison pill with a continuing resolution in order to break the Dem blockade.

Here's their plan:

1) Refuse to fund SNAP through the existing $5 billion contingency fund (which was designed for just such occasions!)
2) Go all over media claiming the contingency fund is flawed somehow (see trashbag MAGA fluffer Jake Tapper making this case on his show)
3) Put forward an emergency funding bill
4) Tack on a last minute "clean CR" to break the shutdown
5) If Dems vote for it, they caved and ACA is gone. If they don't, they're to blame for SNAP expiration. Haha!

The whole thing is garbage. There is already money to fund SNAP through next summer.