No. of Recommendations: 2
*IF* the House approves the bill as written by the Senate. The Senate version apparently funds SNAP through next September, while other funding ends January 30. What if the House votes to end SNAP on January 30? Trump has made it clear he regards SNAP as expendable.
I mean, it's rather implausible that the House would simply end the SNAP program in January altogether - any more than the fact that the current CR only runs through January 30 for everything else means that the Senate thinks that the entirety of the government (other than SNAP) would end in January as well. Instead, it just means that in January, we're coming back to the question (again) of funding the government going forward...and the Senate has tried to just take SNAP (of all programs) off the table from the January debate. IOW, even if there's another shutdown debacle in January (which I wouldn't bet against), at least SNAP won't be part of it.
I imagine that the House will be annoyed at that, since the SNAP funding appears to have been highly motivating in making sure this shutdown only went many weeks instead of many months. They might want to just move SNAP back to track everything else. But we'll see - they may be reluctant to make too many changes.
