Democratic-led states on Tuesday rebuffed proposals by House Republicans to shift food assistance costs off federal ledgers to pay for new farm bill spending and President Donald Trump’s tax and immigration policy agenda.
Two measures making states pick up the tab for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program account for $155 billion in savings, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary estimates, obtained by Bloomberg Government, of a draft bill the House Agriculture Committee released Monday night. The spending cuts would be generated in part by forcing states to pay for a portion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for ...