Senate Republicans will block a Democratic bill that would keep federal food aid flowing to 42 million Americans as they try to build pressure to reopen the government, Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday.
The bill from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján, which would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Women, Infants and Children nutrition past Nov. 1, is a “cynical attempt to buy political cover for Democrats to allow them to carry on their government shutdown even longer,” Thune said from the Senate floor.
“We’re not going to let them pick winners and losers,” he added on the 29th day of the government shutdown.
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