Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are emerging as a key sticking point in talks over the Senate farm bill, threatening to complicate efforts to send the long-delayed legislative package to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Senate Democrats have said they want a two-year delay in SNAP cost shifts—more than $187 billion in cuts implemented last year as part of Republicans’ tax-and-spending law—as they start negotiations on the massive farm bill package. But Republicans have been cool to that demand, underscoring one of the challenges the parties face as the window of time closes to move on a key legislative ...