Fight devastating effect of SNAP cuts

Both the U.S. House and Senate have now passed their 2016 budget resolutions. Resolutions are not laws, but do provide an outline or framework within which the respective congressional chambers are to proceed with bills that become laws of the land. Sadly, both resolutions make deep cuts to anti-poverty programs, the House ruthlessly targeting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), even putting cuts to SNAP on a “fast track.”       

Such cuts could lead to 11 million to 12 million children and adults including the elderly, disabled, active service personnel, veterans, and the working poor, losing benefits. The House plan would do this by cutting SNAP by $125 billion over the next 10 years, while converting SNAP into lump sum block grants to states, rendering it inflexible regardless of rises and falls in America’s economy. 

SNAP is an efficient, effective program. Tell Congress not to fix what isn’t broken.  

Make no mistake. The House plan could leave many vulnerable Americans at risk for hunger to a degree not seen since the Great Depression. Please contact Sens. Jon Tester (202-224-2644) and Steve Daines (202-224-2651) and Rep.  Ryan Zinke (202-225-3211). Urge  them to oppose any cuts to SNAP. —Karen Cunningham, Coram