The original Republican demand had been for work requirements reducing SNAP enrollment by 275,000 per month, but the changes won by the White House, exempting homeless people and veterans, would result in a slight net increase in enrollment. The $6.5 billion saved by the expanded work requirements would be more than offset by $6.8 billion in new spending on benefits for veterans and the homeless, the CBO found. House Republican support for the bill, which had already seen cracks since the deal was announced late Saturday, may fracture further. “That doesn’t make sense.”“The work requirements are so minor,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) told HuffPost. The CBO also said the final bill would save far less than the bill that House Republicans pushed through at the end of April.

Source: Huffington Post May 31, 2023 03:02 UTC