{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-you-can-t-call-yourself-pro-family-while-starving-families", "Beatty: \u201cYou can\u2019t call yourself pro-family while starving families\u201d", "2025-11-07", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "OH", "Joyce Beatty", "B001281", "beatty.house.gov", "beatty", "https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) today joined Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, as an original co-sponsor of the Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act of 2025. The legislation directs the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in available funds to ensure full food assistance benefits continue and to reimburse states that stepped up to feed families during the Republican government shutdown.\n\nThe bill comes as the Trump administration continues to defy multiple federal court orders to deliver the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that 42 million Americans depend on to put food on the table. Despite publicly declaring last weekend that it would be his \u201chonor\u201d to fund the food assistance program, President Trump\u2019s administration is now appealing court rulings that require it to pay full benefits\u2014seeking instead to cover only a fraction of the funds Congress already appropriated.\n\n\u201cIn Ohio, over 1.4 million Ohioans rely on SNAP to put food on the table, and over 180,000 individuals rely on WIC for their children and babies,\u201d said Congresswoman Beatty. \u201cWith the holidays approaching, the stakes could not be higher. These are critical lifelines, not bargaining chips for Republicans.\u201d\n\n\u201cWithholding SNAP and WIC benefits is an orchestrated attack from Republicans on Ohio\u2019s working families,\u201d Beatty continued. \u201cFor a party that\u2019s supposed to be \u2018pro-family,\u2019 targeting low-income Americans at the dinner table and depriving infants of their critical nutrition are inhumane actions riddled with cruel hypocrisy.\u201d\n\nUnder the Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act of 2025, the USDA would be required to release all available contingency funds immediately and reimburse states that used their own budgets to keep food assistance programs running during the shutdown.\n\n\u201cHunger is a policy choice \u2013 and every minute the Administration delays releasing the contingency funding for SNAP, it is choosing to allow millions of American children and families to go hungry,\u201d said Ranking Member Hayes. \u201cThe Keep SNAP and WIC Funded Act would prevent this volatile administration from weaponizing the most vulnerable among us. I will continue to fight to keep families fed and strengthen our food safety net programs.\u201d\n\nBeatty concluded, \u201cThis fight is about basic decency, and we will not stop until the administration releases these funds and keeps its promise to the American people.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://beatty.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/beatty-you-can-t-call-yourself-pro-family-while-starving-families"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4052381739020348, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}