Republican pushback on Covid emergency could cost Wisconsin's neediest residents $50 million in monthly food stamps
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More than 240,000 of Wisconsin's lowest-income households could lose $50 million in pandemic food stamp benefits next month due to the ongoing power struggle between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled state legislature.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court late last month blocked Evers from repeatedly extending the state's public health emergency without approval from lawmakers, immediately striking down the governor's statewide mask mandate. The legislature had sought to overturn one of Evers' prior emergency declarations earlier this year. But the ruling also puts in jeopardy enhanced federal food stamp benefits, which Congress approved as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in March 2020. The relief package boosted benefits to the maximum amount for a family's size, and the Biden administration just broadened the provision to another 25 million low-income Americans nationwide.
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