The battle over food stamps has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the fierce partisan clash over government spending.

Republicans in Congress are increasingly highlighting the imminent shortfall facing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in a bid to pressure Democrats to help end the ongoing shutdown. They say Democrats, by opposing the GOP’s stopgap spending bill, are threatening undue harm to some of the nation’s poorest people.

Democrats have countered with charges of hypocrisy, noting the Republicans’ long history of seeking to dismantle federal programs benefiting low-income people, including SNAP. They’re pointing, as recent evidence, to the steep cuts to SNAP adopted this year as part of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

The impasse is well-entrenched an

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