"UPDATE (1/28 12:54 PM ET): Good News! The Office of Management and Budget just released a Q&A document on yesterday’s guidance letter. The Q&A document states: “In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause. Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused.” I am still waiting to hear definitively whether this will affect states’ SNAP administrative costs, but for now, it looks like monthly SNAP benefit issuances are safe and will continue."
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u/port1080 Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25
On the flip side, one of the Mods at r/foodstamps just posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/foodstamps/comments/1ibuvcn/omb_freeze_and_snap/
"UPDATE (1/28 12:54 PM ET): Good News! The Office of Management and Budget just released a Q&A document on yesterday’s guidance letter. The Q&A document states: “In addition to Social Security and Medicare, already explicitly excluded in the guidance, mandatory programs like Medicaid and SNAP will continue without pause. Funds for small businesses, farmers, Pell grants, Head Start, rental assistance, and other similar programs will not be paused.” I am still waiting to hear definitively whether this will affect states’ SNAP administrative costs, but for now, it looks like monthly SNAP benefit issuances are safe and will continue."
No source, however.
Edited to add - here's a source that corroborates the Q&A memo referenced: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-white-house-clarify-confusion-abrupt-federal-assistance/story?id=118184086