Beatty: “You can’t call yourself pro-family while starving families”

WASHINGTON, D.C.- 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.

The 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 "honor" to fund the food assistance program, President Trump's administration is now appealing court rulings that require it to pay full benefits-seeking instead to cover only a fraction of the funds Congress already appropriated.

"In 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," said Congresswoman Beatty. "With the holidays approaching, the stakes could not be higher. These are critical lifelines, not bargaining chips for Republicans."

"Withholding SNAP and WIC benefits is an orchestrated attack from Republicans on Ohio's working families," Beatty continued. "For a party that's supposed to be 'pro-family,' targeting low-income Americans at the dinner table and depriving infants of their critical nutrition are inhumane actions riddled with cruel hypocrisy."

Under 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.

"Hunger is a policy choice - 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," said Ranking Member Hayes."The 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."

Beatty concluded,"This fight is about basic decency, and we will not stop until the administration releases these funds and keeps its promise to the American people.

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