As the government shutdown enters its fourth grueling week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made a surprising announcement Wednesday — Democrats will now back a Republican-led effort to keep food assistance programs running.
At a press conference on Capitol Hill, Schumer admitted that his party would support Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposal to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food benefits to millions of low-income Americans. “Today, tomorrow, if [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune would put it on the floor, it would pass overwhelmingly,” Schumer said, according to The Hill.
Hawley’s measure, titled the Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025, seeks to ensure that essential nutrition benefits remain available until the shutdown ends — a direct response to warnings from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) that millions of Americans could lose food aid as early as Saturday.
The bill has already gained support from ten Republican senators, including James Lankford, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Marsha Blackburn, Bernie Moreno, Kevin Cramer, Bill Cassidy, Katie Britt, Jon Husted, and John Cornyn. The growing bipartisan support signals increasing pressure on both parties to act before food insecurity spreads across the country.
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