{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-lujan-unveils-legislation-to-reverse-devastating-snap-cuts-restore-food-security-for-millions-of-americans/", "ICYMI: Luj\u00e1n Unveils Legislation to Reverse Devastating SNAP Cuts, Restore Food Security for Millions of Americans", "2025-11-21", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "NM", "Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n", "L000570", "www.lujan.senate.gov", "lujan", "https://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/?jsf=jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "Bicameral legislation earned the backing of all Senate Democrats, nearly 1,500 national, state, and community-based organizations\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 ICYMI: This week, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, led the entire Senate Democratic Caucus in introducing the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act of 2025 to repeal the devastating Republican cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) made in the Republican Budget Betrayal.\n\nDuring the Republican shutdown, Senator Luj\u00e1n\u2019s efforts to ensure millions of Americans would receive their food benefits made national news after Senate Republican Leadership blocked that effort. Despite that obstruction, his bill earned bipartisan support.\n\nBloomberg: New Mexico leads the nation in SNAP use per capita, prompting Luj\u00e1n to play a key role developing anti-hunger policy this year. During the longest government shutdown on record, he introduced legislation to keep the program funded along with nutrition aid for women and infants, a measure Republicans ultimately blocked.\n\n\u201cFor half a century, our nation has stood behind a bipartisan promise: that no child, no senior, no veteran, and no working family should go hungry,\u201d Luj\u00e1n said. \u201cRepublicans broke that promise and ripped meals away from millions of Americans in their Budget Betrayal.\u201d\n\nPolitico: Democrats led by Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) introduced a bill Thursday that would completely undo all changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that Republicans passed in their \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d package this summer.\n\nIt\u2019s the party\u2019s latest effort to undo or curb the impact of around $186 billion in cuts to SNAP and agriculture-related spending as policies like new work requirements take effect.\n\nAgri-Pulse: Lujan said rural groceries will be hit hard. \u201cNo one\u2019s been talking about rural grocery stores,\u201d he said. \u201cOver 10%, 20% of the revenue that goes to these local grocery stores comes from SNAP beneficiaries. Think about the smallest towns all across America who worked hard just to get that grocery store.\u201d\n\nSource NM: U.S. Sen Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n of New Mexico led fellow senators Thursday in a denunciation of recent federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before introducing a bill that would repeal all SNAP-related changes in the recently enacted \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.\u201d\n\nLuj\u00e1n, a Democrat who leads a Senate subcommittee on nutrition and represents the state with the highest nationwide percentage of SNAP recipients, called the cuts cruel and unprecedented.\n\nSanta Fe New Mexican: \u201cMy Republican colleagues have chosen to let their constituents go hungry. My legislation will stop that,\u201d Luj\u00e1n, D-N.M., said Thursday during a news conference announcing the legislation. \u201cWe must ensure that no child, no senior, no veteran and no hardworking family is denied the basic dignity of a meal.\u201d\n\nThis isn\u2019t Luj\u00e1n\u2019s first attempt to undo some of the cuts brought on by the budget reconciliation. He was among a group of Democratic senators to introduce legislation in July to reverse the law\u2019s health care cuts, though that bill hasn\u2019t moved beyond introduction in the intervening months.\n\nNearly 1,500 community organizations across the U.S. \u2014 including several food banks and farmers organizations in New Mexico \u2014 signed a letter in support of Luj\u00e1n\u2019s legislation to undo the SNAP cuts.\n\nKRQE: New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan is leading an effort on Capitol Hill to reverse cuts to the SNAP program. Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to repeal cuts to the food assistance program implemented in President Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d\n\nThere are people across the country who you probably stand in line with when you\u2019re checking out at a grocery store,\u201d said New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D). \u201cEveryday folks. Right now they face the real possibility of going hungry because of the choices made by President Trump and congressional Republicans.\u201d\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://www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-lujan-unveils-legislation-to-reverse-devastating-snap-cuts-restore-food-security-for-millions-of-americans/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.193068154156208, "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"}