Subject: Re: AFGE union calls shutdown end
The SNAP benefits will be restored, presumably, as soon as the shutdown ends. The health care benefits will be gone permanently.

That CR was only supposed to fund the government until 11/15, two and a half weeks from now. Then they go through this kabuki dance again.

Defunding SNAP would be an attractive target for the next go around, except they lose their enforcement mechanism for their forced labor scheme.

Defunding Medicaid would be attractive, except that would, again, remove their enforcement mechanism for their forced labor scheme.

Steve