The Republican Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is defending recent laws with the aim of encouraging states to fight wrong payments-but Democrats are fighting on a final-minute change, which they argue that they encourage states for high error rates.
On Thursday, a legislation was passed from the GOP -led Congress, which can be paid to some states for the first time the cost of profit for Snap known as Food Stamps Program.
The federal government currently covers the cost of benefits, but in the last few months under that plan by the Congress’s Republican, some states will have to cover anywhere between 5 percent and 15 percent profit cost if they have above 6 percent of the payment error rate-which factors are in over-end-end-end-end-end-end-end-end
However, the text was made changes, which allowed the delay for cost-share requirements for states with highest error rate shortly before its passage in the Senate this week. The GOP leadership demanded the closure of support from the Alaska sensor. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sulivan, who had the highest payment error rate in the country in the financial year 2024 in the state.
Sen John Howen (RN.D.), a member of the Senate Agricultural Committee, said that Republican made changes to follow the Chamber rules.
He said, “You have to give time to accommodate those states because they are all about what they are going to do, he descends to the midrange, and then they still have to pay the penalty because they are so high,” he said. “So, it is about giving the states a proper opportunity to adjust.”
Under the Greenlight plan by the Congress on Thursday, some states will start contributing a part of the profit cost in the financial year 2028 based on their payment error rate. But this scheme allows the implementation of delay for two years for states with payment error rates, if they reach around 13.34 percent or more – an effort Republican says that states such as Alaska have to provide them with much rates to bring them down with the aim of providing them with a lot of rates.
Hoven said that the GOP -led Agriculture Committee, which prepared the SNAP pitch, was trying to follow a special procedure to follow the restrictive rules that controlled a particular process, which the Republican approved the plan in the upper chamber without a democratic support. As part of the rules, Hoven said, “He always said that you have received time to adjust to accommodate the tests.”
Republican says that the objective of the overall proposal is to encourage states to reduce wrong payment. But the Democrats have rapidly criticized the plan, arguing that it would encourage states with high error rates to continue the wrong payment.
“The most absurd example of the hypocrisy of the Republican Bill: He has now proposed to delay Snap cut for only two years for two years, which is only for states with highest error rates to bury their help for Alaska: AK, DC, FL, GA, MD, MA, NM, NM, NY, or a series of posts.On XOn the plan.
In another swipe in the plan, Sen Brian Shutz (D-Hawai)XeHe had to recite his state governor that “the most errors in administering the program” with 10 states “are exempted from food aid”, not exempt in that air as the governor has done a good job in reducing the error rate by 15 percent. “
As comments, Democrats and Advocates have argued that this measure may motivate states to cut profit due to changes in cost burden.
Recent data unveiled by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) revealed that Alaska’s payment error rate is 24.66 percent in FY 2024. The national average was 10.93 percent.
Murkovsky saidAfter voteShe did not “like” the bill, but demanded “to take care of Alaska’s interests”. But she also said that she knows that “, in many parts of the country, there are Americans who are not going to benefit from this bill.”
“I don’t like the fact that we have gone through an artificial time limit, an artificial time to produce, to complete a time limit, rather than trying to produce the best bills for the country,” he said. “But when I saw the direction that is going on, you can either say, ‘I don’t like it and do not try to help my kingdom,’ or you can roll your sleeve.”
Republican also criticized Democrats to challenge the SNAP provision prepared by the previous GOP, seeking more target help to Alaska, as the GOP leadership demanded to win Murkowski’s support for the bill, which eventually passed the Senate in a tie-breaking vote. However, the Democrats opposed the first proposed exemption for non -worthy states of Alaska and Hawaii, reduced “special treatment”.
In the comment on Wednesday, the House Agriculture President Glenn Thompson (A-Pa) Senate “Alaska had to add something to address that challenge.”
He said, “From the perspective of a functionality, they need to get their error rate as soon as possible, because when the time comes, and they have to start paying, they don’t want the high error rate you’re coming now,” he said.
“In most states, Alaska will be a challenge, I think, but most states have been less than 6 percent at a time in previous years,” he said.
However, he did not even exempt “crazy” work requirements for some indigenous population in Trump’s Megabil’s Senate, which did not appear in the house bill, as Republican tries to tighten the requirements of work.
“This is what the Senate had to do,” he said, although he said that “the economic situation is challenging those sovereign lands and high unemployment, high poverty.”
It is not clear whether the result of carving-out talks was the Alaska Senators with GOP leadership around Snap in the leading days for the Senate route. The hill has reached its offices for comment.
Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development said that “one of the largest indigenous population in the nation in Alaska,” Alaska natives represent 17 percent of the statein 2010,
At the same time, the Senate Bill exit the temporary discount, which was preserved in the house bill for former foster youth, homeless persons and veterans.
Despite being preserved in the house plan, Thompson criticized carving-out, which was safe as part of the previous bipartisan deal in 2023.
He said, “It cheats on all those individuals to reach us for employment and financing of career and technical education, because here the entire goal is to exclude these people from poverty if they are struggling in poverty, because you have qualification for snap,” he said. “And the fact is, they were really unfit for great benefits.”
Other proposals in the party’s SNAP scheme try to limit the ability of the federal government to increase future monthly benefits, change work requirements and include a part of agricultural provisions.
The plan comes when Republican demanded ways to generate the answer to $ 1 trillion in saving federal dollars as part of a major package in the next decade, which also carries forward the tax agenda of President Trump, which is estimated to add trillions of dollars to the country’s deficit.
Republican says that the lack of proposed expenditure, which is also obtained through programs such as medicid, aims to complete “waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal government.
But initial research was releasedThis weekThe Urban Institute found that only SNAP changes could affect around 22 million families, which researchers said that under the scheme, there may be a risk of “some or all SNAP losing benefits” under the scheme.
Asked whether the final-finance in the plan to help other states was not changed and disturbed, Sen Jim Justice (RW.VA.), who eventually voted for the plan, said to reporters this week, “Yes and not.”
The former governor, Justice said on Tuesday, “But at the same time, I think they probably had a more serious need and so I think it will be cured.”
“If it is like any business deal that I have ever seen in my life, you know, a good business deal parties go away after doing something, and they walk away, and they are probably holding their nose a little, and they are probably regretting some things and saying, ‘Doggon, we do not do well and we do not do well and everything, this is a good deal.”
