Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has called on state lawmakers to replace tens of millions of dollars in anti-hunger funds cut last year under the Trump administration’s “big beautiful bill.”
In his proposed budget released last Thursday, the state’s widely popular Republican governor urged the GOP-dominated state legislature to allocate $46 million to replace funds lost due to bill’s cutbacks of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. More than one in 10 Georgians receive benefits under the program.
Passed by both houses of U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Trump in July, the administration’s marquee spending bill reduces federal support for state SNAP staff to 25% from 50%.
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