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Brandon Gill wants to take hot meals from the hungry #maga #texas #brandongill
Brandon Gill introduced a bill to stop people from buying hot meals with food assistance, calling it a "fast-food loophole."
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Brandon Gill introduced a bill to stop people from buying hot meals with food assistance, calling it a "fast-food loophole."
2.8 million Texans got SNAP in September, the fewest since 2009 and down 20.8% in a year — the steepest drop in two decades. Children are more than half the losses. Every Texas House Republican on this site voted for the budget bill that experts blame.
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David Valadao represents California's Central Valley, where more than 27% of households rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
Kentucky's SNAP rolls have dropped from 627,164 people last October to just under 547,000, and Gov. Andy Beshear says about 80,000 lost food aid because of the federal changes in Trump's budget bill — including 24,655 children and 6,572 seniors. Four of Kentucky's five Republican House members voted for it. The fifth, Thomas Massie, voted no.
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Florida Congressman Carlos Gimenez voted twice for Donald Trump's budget bill that slashes nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and $187 billion from SNAP food assistance.
Food-stamp cards still use 1960s magnetic stripes that skimmers can easily read. Putting chips in them would cost about $215 million, against $600 million-plus stolen from SNAP and other benefits every year. The House Agriculture chairman blocked it, and Trump sank the deal that would have paid victims back.
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Mario Diaz-Balart told his constituents that cuts to food assistance would simply eliminate waste and fraud.
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Carlos Gimenez backed massive cuts to food assistance that kicked more than 5.6 million Americans, including over a million children, off SNAP in a single year.
Louisiana's SNAP rolls fell by about 170,000 people — 21% — in the year after Trump signed his budget bill, one of the steepest drops in the country. Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson, Clay Higgins and Julia Letlow all voted for the law, in May and again in July 2025.