{"id":55938,"date":"2025-10-23T13:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/youngkin-declares-state-of-emergency-over-democrat-shutdown-depleting-snap-benefits-for-850k-virginians\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:54:57","slug":"youngkin-declares-state-of-emergency-over-democrat-shutdown-depleting-snap-benefits-for-850k-virginians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/youngkin-declares-state-of-emergency-over-democrat-shutdown-depleting-snap-benefits-for-850k-virginians\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin declares state of emergency over \u2018Democrat Shutdown\u2019 depleting SNAP benefits for 850K Virginians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin<\/a> declared a state of emergency<\/a> Thursday from Richmond, blaming congressional Democrats<\/a> for dragging out the federal government shutdown, projecting the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out in just over a week.<\/p>\n

“The Democrat Shutdown<\/a> will cause SNAP benefits to run out for over 850,000 Virginians in need starting Nov. 1, 2025,” the outgoing Republican said of the program, formerly dubbed food stamps.<\/p>\n

“I refuse to let hungry Virginians be used as \u2018leverage\u2019 by congressional Democrats. I am declaring a State of Emergency due to the Democrat Shutdown to protect hungry Virginians in need.”<\/p>\n

Youngkin called on Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., to vote in favor of ending the shutdown<\/a> with a clean continuing resolution as Republicans have offered.<\/p>\n

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“This is an extraordinary action and is only necessary because of the shamelessness of congressional Democrats \u2013 including every Democrat in our entire delegation \u2013 who refuse to pass a clean continuing resolution to open the federal government.”<\/p>\n

Youngkin said Virginia will use the state of emergency to continue providing food benefits<\/a> to qualified Virginians “until congressional Democrats put the interests of Virginians in need ahead of their politics.”<\/p>\n

He credited President Donald Trump<\/a> for supporting him in the endeavor.<\/p>\n

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears<\/a>, who is running to succeed Youngkin, said the administration is committed to ensuring no Virginian goes without food due to the shutdown.<\/p>\n

“At Governor Youngkin\u2019s direction, food benefits will be provided without interruption to support Virginia families,” Earle-Sears said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania, Colorado and Illinois all reportedly have issued warnings about the near-term future of SNAP in their states amid the shutdown, but none of their governors have yet declared a similar state of emergency.<\/p>\n

The November date matches reports out of the Department of Agriculture as the timeframe when SNAP could run out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency Thursday from Richmond, blaming congressional Democrats for dragging out the federal government shutdown, projecting the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) will run out in just over a week. “The Democrat Shutdown will cause SNAP benefits to run out for over 850,000 Virginians in need starting Nov. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}