Senator John Curtis recently hosted a virtual townhall meeting attended digitally by over 800 individuals with a variety of questions, including of course a focus on the shutdown and SNAP benefits. When asked if he will encourage the Trump Administration to use available funds to fully fund SNAP benefits for November, Curtis said, “Yes, of course…I don’t know anyone that does not want to do everything possible to make sure we’re meeting those SNAP benefits, but at some point, as the shutdown goes on, we run out of those options as well, which is just one of the reasons why shutdowns are a bad idea to begin with.” When asked about meeting budget deadlines in the future, Curtis said he has a bill that would solve this: “It simply says when you do an appropriation, it doesn’t expire until you do the next appropriation, meaning that would always stay active. You can never go into a shutdown, and until there’s enough pressure to do a new appropriation, that previous one stays in place.”
