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James Lankford: “We voted last week to fund SNAP benefits for the entire year…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Published October 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:06

Status quo. No, no funny games, no partisan anything. Just keep it open at the same levels we were at before. They voted down every single one of those. We voted last week to fund SNAP benefits for the entire year and said, let's just actually fund, let's take that off the table. Let's fund them for the entire year. Democrats also voted that down. So we're stuck in some ways. (01:06–01:14)

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Asserts that a vote was held to fund SNAP benefits for the entire year.

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