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Should a government shutdown happen, Rhode Islanders will wake up Monday to find nothing much has changed. But these programs would start to feel it first.
The start of September brings big changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
Pritzker signed a bill setting up a program to distribute $20 million in grants and assistance for grocery stores and research into food insecurity.
Congressman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, of Centre County, chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, said a short extension may be needed to pass the U.S. Farm Bill.
>> you're counting. >> so how did -- hakeem jeffries is counting. >> how did that come about, in terms of your relationship with speaker mccarthy, and in terms of getting a lot of democrats to vote for stuff that, you know, they weren't that wild about, tell us how that worked. >> you know, clearly there were a few skirmishes in some areas where there was concern, whether that was in the permitting space or around the snap program, the biden administration did a tremendous job of negotiating, you know, a resolution that actually because of the increased exemptions related to veterans or people...