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After Zach Nunn “blatantly [went] back on [his] promise to protect food stamp benefits” last week, new reporting from Iowa Capital Dispatch is highlighting his YES vote for drastic cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).
Nunn rubberstamped the extreme Republican plan to slash SNAP by nearly $300 billion, even though 31,000 households in IA-03 – 47% of which have children – rely on the program.
DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“Zach Nunn lied to Iowa families and farmers for months, claiming he’d protect the SNAP benefits that 31,000 IA-03 families rely on – only to turn around and sell them out to give tax breaks to billionaires.”
Read more:
Iowa Capital Dispatch: D.C. Dispatch: Iowa’s U.S. representatives support bills that cut Medicaid and SNAP
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Some health care workers and other Iowans opposed to proposed cuts to Medicaid and SNAP being discussed by U.S. House Republicans criticized Iowa’s federal delegation as they work on the committees tasked with moving those proposals forward.
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Nunn… [is] on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, that was similarly tasked with finding spending cuts to make to federal programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Approved 29-25 Wednesday, the bill moved forward by the committee will shift some portions of SNAP funding to states for the first time.
- However, Democrats and others involved in food assistance programs said the cuts will hurt Iowans who rely on SNAP to purchase food for their families.
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