{"id":14937,"date":"2025-10-28T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/things-are-getting-real-no-plans-for-snap-patch-in-house-johnson-says\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:31:47","slug":"things-are-getting-real-no-plans-for-snap-patch-in-house-johnson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/things-are-getting-real-no-plans-for-snap-patch-in-house-johnson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Things are getting real&#8217;: No plans for SNAP patch in House, Johnson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> made clear to House Republicans on a private call Tuesday that GOP leaders have no plans to put a standalone bill for expiring food aid benefits up for a vote as the shutdown pressure mounts on Democrats before Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are getting real&#8221; this week, Johnson said as he braced his members for some of the worst real-world fallout of the shutdown so far. He urged Republicans to stay in lockstep as &#8220;pressure mounts on Democrats&#8221; \u2014 including key deadlines that will impact millions of low-income Americans. The call was described by four people with direct knowledge of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pain register is about to hit level 10,&#8221; Johnson said, adding that &#8220;sadly&#8221; 42 million Americans will be hit this weekend when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits run out of money. &#8220;We deeply regret it on our side,&#8221; he added, lambasting Democrats for their tactics.<\/p>\n<p>The call got heated at times. Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/337881\" data-person-id=\"337881\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (R-Ga.) railed against the White House political team and said people are &#8220;pissed&#8221; about Republicans failing to deliver on &#8220;America First&#8221; principles.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said the Senate would vote again on the <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_HR_5371\" target=\"_blank\">stopgap spending bill<\/a> House Republicans already passed, but he indicated GOP leaders have no plans to put standalone bills up for a vote to keep funding flowing for food assistance or to pay federal workers. He noted the pressure rising on Democrats as key unions also call for the shutdown to end.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said much the same to reporters Tuesday. \u201cThere\u2019s not a high level of interest in doing carve-outs, or so-called \u2018rifle shots.\u2019 I think most people realize the way to get out of this mess is to vote to open up the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jordain Carney contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson made clear to House Republicans on a private call Tuesday that GOP leaders have no plans to put a standalone bill for expiring food aid benefits up for a vote as the shutdown pressure mounts on Democrats before Nov. 1. &#8220;Things are getting real&#8221; this week, Johnson said as he braced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}