The new speaker is a proponent of more hardline GOP efforts to overhaul the country’s largest anti-hunger program.
Speaker Mike Johnson is a proponent of more hardline GOP efforts to overhaul SNAP, the country’s largest anti-hunger program that serves 41 million low-income Americans. | Francis Chung/POLITICO‘s new role as House speaker heightens the chances of a major political clash next year over one of the nation’s largest welfare programs and the government’s preeminent aid package for farmers and rural America.
Many Democrats are alarmed that Johnson’s rise to speaker will embolden GOP hardliners who are eager to target nutrition spending in the farm bill. Democrats, whose votes House Republicans will likely need to get a farm bill across the finish line, vehemently dispute those GOP arguments over SNAP and work requirements. said Johnson was “100 percent wrong on SNAP,” which McGovern described as “one of the most impactful tools we have to fight poverty.
“So we’re going to return these programs to being a life vest and not a lifestyle, a hand up and not a handout,” Johnson said on the call, adding that Republicans were “proud of these reforms.”
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