GREENFIELD, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — Greenfield Mayor Ginny Desorgher, along with several other western Mass mayors, sent testimony in support of a bill that would maintain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, also known as SNAP.
The bill, The Hunger Free Future Act, was co-sponsored by United States Representative Jim McGovern and intends to protect SNAP benefits from backdoor funding cuts.
“SNAP helps make sure children, seniors, veterans, and Americans with disabilities have enough food to stay healthy. Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are going after these very modest benefits –about $2 per meal – to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. It’s a special kind of cruel to take food out of the mouths of hungry people to fund yet another tax break for the richest people in this country,” said Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and a senior Member of the Committee on Agriculture. “Our bill is simple: it will protect modest SNAP benefits and make sure future updates don’t make hunger worse.”