{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-craig-assistant-leader-neguse-host-press-conference-trump-administrations", "Rep. Craig, Assistant Leader Neguse Host Press Conference on Trump Administration\u2019s Refusal to Fund SNAP", "2025-10-29", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Angie Craig", "C001119", "craig.house.gov", "craig", "https://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture Angie Craig and Assistant Leader Joe Neguse (CO-02) hosted a press conference on the Trump Administration\u2019s deliberate suspension of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Reps. Craig and Neguse were joined by Reps. Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), Salud Carbajal (CA-24), Shontel Brown (OH-11), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) and Alma Adams (NC-12).\n\nThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has sufficient SNAP contingency funding to provide full benefits for the month of November, despite the Republicans\u2019 government shutdown. However, President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are refusing to release more than $5 billion in available funding taking away food assistance from nearly 42 million Americans.\n\n\u201cIn the case of November SNAP benefits, this Administration\u2019s hands are not tied,\u201d Rep. Craig said in her remarks. \u201cWithholding food from hungry children, seniors, people with disabilities and veterans is a choice.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe law is clear and unambiguous on this point,\u201d she continued. \u201cI am calling on the President to get back from Asia \u2013 to do the right thing and the moral thing. I am calling on the President to follow the law. And where are my Republican colleagues? Silent. Complicit. They have a responsibility to their constituents not to go along with this cruel behavior.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis Administration must stop playing politics with America\u2019s hungry seniors, veterans and children,\u201d Rep. Craig concluded.\n\nYesterday, Rep. Craig joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) in a press conference to demand the Trump Administration use previously appropriated funding to fund SNAP in November.\n\nThe press conference followed a lawsuit filed by 25 states and the District of Columbia against the Trump Administration for illegally withholding Congressionally appropriated funds that would have helped fund food assistance benefits through November. You can read Rep. Craig\u2019s statement on the lawsuit here. You can watch her interview with MSNBC\u2019s Chris Jansing on the lawsuit and the Administration\u2019s assault on SNAP here.\n\nYou can watch the full clip of Rep. Craig\u2019s remarks from today\u2019s press conference here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://craig.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-craig-assistant-leader-neguse-host-press-conference-trump-administrations"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8451730720698833, "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"}