“In order for this country to not default on its bills, we then turned and made our most vulnerable communities default,' said Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
“In order for this country to not default on its bills, we then turned and made our most vulnerable communities default," said Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. Years before she came to Congress, Bush lived in a car with her then-husband and two young children after the family had been evicted from their rental home.provides monthly funds — sometimes as little as $6 a day — to allow low-income individuals and families to buy groceries.
released Tuesday said that the changes in the debt ceiling package would add almost 80,000 people to the rolls of SNAP in an average month. Bush, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, voted “no” on the debt limit deal on Wednesday night after she spent days hearing from advocate groups and constituents on the issue.
“I did not agree to these SNAP restrictions, and I won’t give Republicans an opening to try and take food from more food insecure Americans in Farm Bill negotiations later this year," Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in a statement.
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