At a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig criticized Republican proposals to shift Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states. “What we’re hearing about through the great work of all of you in the press is cost share for SNAP, which is going to put the onus on states to either fund SNAP or blame the states for the cuts, but it doesn’t matter because people will be more hungry and less healthy in our country.” Craig also defended SNAP’s current benefit levels and challenged the rationale behind proposed cuts. “Do we think $6.20 a day on average is too much for someone who qualifies for the SNAP program? This is a shell game, frankly, that the American people need to call bulls_t on right here and now.”
