As Jon Ossoff’s government shutdown nears one month, funding for SNAP is scheduled to run out this week, jeopardizing assistance for over 1.3 million Georgians and over 500,000 kids. Chuck Schumer said, “Every day gets better for [Democrats],” reaffirming that this shutdown is political leverage in their fight to give illegal aliens free healthcare. But Ossoff voted 12 times to keep the government closed, which forced essential workers in Georgia to go without pay and is hurting veterans, small business owners, and military families. Now, Ossoff is playing politics with childrens’ SNAP benefits.
“Nearly 1.3 million Georgians – including over 500,000 kids – are now at risk of going hungry because Jon Ossoff wants to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia. “Ossoff will always put his radical left base over the needs of Georgia families.”
Background:
- On October 10, 2025, the Department of Agriculture sent a letter to state agencies advising state processors to “hold their November issuance files and delay transmission to State EBT vendors until further notice.” The letter stated that there were only enough funds to keep the SNAP program going through October 2025.
- Democrats’ partisan proposal to reopen the government demands free healthcare for illegal aliens and gutting the historic $50 billion investment in rural healthcare delivered by President Trump’s Working Family Tax Cuts law.
- A “Democratic insider” told the Hill, “[Ossoff’s] calculus is, ‘Do I vote to open the government up and get crushed and can’t raise a single dollar of low-dollar money or do I vote to shut the government down and get $3 million [from online fundraising]?'”
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