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As Nebraska faces a projected $95 million budget deficit, Republican congressional candidates are endorsing legislation that will sink the state even further into debt and risk ripping food off the tables of more than 63,000 Nebraska families.
House Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill will require Nebraska to pay up to $50 million more every year to maintain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This new budget shortfall may force Nebraska to reduce benefits or kick families off the program while nearly 1 in 7 Nebraskans face food insecurity.
Both Republican candidates for the hotly contested NE-02 seat, Brinker Harding and Brett Lindstrom, have endorsed the bill that would worsen Nebraska’s budget issues and gut food access for the 23,000 NE-02 families who rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Fiscal responsibility is nothing more than a talking point to Nebraska Republicans. Harding and Lindstrom are already taking orders from their party bosses in D.C. – fall in line, Nebraska be damned. Nebraskans don’t want another rubber-stamp for Trump’s extremism; they want results – Democrats are ready to deliver.”
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