HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 205

Reps. Mentzer, Price, Miller, Arbit, McKinney, O'Neal, Neeley, McFall, Xiong, Brixie, Longjohn, B. Carter, Pohutsky, Tsernoglou, Coffia, Koleszar, MacDonell, Young, Martus, Hope, Rheingans, Wooden, Byrnes, Paiz, Scott and Witwer offered the following resolution:

A resolution to strongly urge President Donald J. Trump and the United States Congress to take immediate and deliberate action to ensure the issuance of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for the month of November and for the duration of the continued lapse in appropriations.

Whereas, The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food benefits to low-income families. SNAP is the nation?s largest nutrition assistance program, serving more than 42 million individuals across the nation; and

Whereas, In Michigan alone, nearly 13 percent of households ? approximately 1.4 million individuals ? relied on SNAP benefits to access food in 2024. Of these households, 43 percent included children, 36 percent included older adults, and 51 percent included a person with a disability; and

Whereas, On October 10, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services received notice from the United States Department of Agriculture?s Food and Nutrition Service directing states to hold their November issuance files and delay transmission to state EBT vendors until further notice. This means that Michiganders will not receive SNAP benefits for November; and

Whereas, SNAP is a lifeline that helps put food on the table for children, seniors, veterans, disabled persons, and other vulnerable individuals struggling to meet their basic food needs. The loss of SNAP benefits would harm these vulnerable Michiganders and exacerbate challenges this state faces with food insecurity and childhood hunger; and

Whereas, While food banks and pantries are preparing to expeditiously serve as many Michiganders as possible, neither alone has the capacity nor the funding to meet the demand or make up for the loss of SNAP benefits for Michigan families; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, That we urge President Donald J. Trump and the United States Congress to take immediate and deliberate action to ensure the issuance of SNAP benefits for the month of November and for the duration of the continued lapse in appropriations; and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, the United States Secretary of Agriculture, and the members of the Michigan congressional delegation.