{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-works-across-the-aisle-to-protect-snap/", "Welch Works Across the Aisle to Protect SNAP", "2025-10-27", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "VT", "Peter Welch", "W000800", "www.welch.senate.gov", "welch", "https://www.welch.senate.gov/category/press-release/page/", "scraper", "Hawley and Welch\u2019s Keep SNAP Funded Act would protect millions of Americans from losing SNAP during shutdown\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) tonight cosponsored Senator Josh Hawley\u2019s (R-Mo.) Keep SNAP Funded Act, which would ensure nutrition assistance will continue despite the ongoing government shutdown.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m working across the aisle because a lapse in federal nutrition assistance would hurt more than 41 million Americans\u2014from Vermont to Missouri, and beyond,\u201d said Senator Welch. \u201cThe Keep SNAP Funded Act is a commonsense, bipartisan bill. I urge Senate leadership to bring this bill to the floor, and I urge all of my colleagues to support it. If the Trump Administration refuses to use the money it has to fund the program during this shutdown, Congress must step in.\u201d\n\nMore than 63,000 Vermonters rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), called 3SquaresVT.\n\nSenator Welch is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee.\n\nLast week, Senator Welch joined 45 Democratic colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release the billions of dollars at its disposal to ensure Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits continue in November. The Trump Administration refused to release the funding, and benefits will lapse in early November without congressional action.\n\nRead the Keep SNAP Funded Act 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://www.welch.senate.gov/welch-works-across-the-aisle-to-protect-snap/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2926559429615736, "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"}