{"id":5761,"date":"2015-09-22T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-stabenow-decry-potential-loss-of-food-assistance-if-republicans-shut-down-government\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:55","slug":"merkley-stabenow-decry-potential-loss-of-food-assistance-if-republicans-shut-down-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-stabenow-decry-potential-loss-of-food-assistance-if-republicans-shut-down-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley y Stabenow denuncian la posible p\u00e9rdida de asistencia alimentaria si los republicanos cierran el gobierno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 El senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley, miembro de mayor rango del Subcomit\u00e9 de Asignaciones Agr\u00edcolas del Senado de los EE. UU., y la senadora Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), miembro de mayor rango del Comit\u00e9 de Agricultura, Nutrici\u00f3n y Silvicultura del Senado de los EE. UU., condenaron hoy la posible p\u00e9rdida. o retraso en la asistencia alimentaria para millones de estadounidenses si el gobierno cierra la pr\u00f3xima semana, y llam\u00f3 a los republicanos a trabajar responsablemente con los dem\u00f3cratas para evitar un desastre de cierre innecesario y motivado pol\u00edticamente.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEn una semana en la que el Papa realiza una visita hist\u00f3rica a Washington para recordarnos a todos nuestra obligaci\u00f3n moral de cuidar de los m\u00e1s pobres y vulnerables entre nosotros, es vergonzoso que estemos siquiera contemplando un cierre impulsado pol\u00edticamente que quitar\u00eda alimentos de las mesas de millones de ni\u00f1os, personas mayores y estadounidenses discapacitados\u201d, dijo Merkley. &quot;Es hora de que nuestros colegas del otro lado del pasillo finalmente se pongan a trabajar y se aseguren de que millones de estadounidenses no pasen hambre&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEstamos a ocho d\u00edas de un cierre del gobierno y los l\u00edderes republicanos est\u00e1n perdiendo el tiempo con fanfarronadas pol\u00edticas divisivas\u201d, dijo Stabenow. \u201cEsta pol\u00edtica arriesgada tiene consecuencias reales. Es hora de que los republicanos se unan a nosotros en un enfoque bipartidista y equilibrado que mantenga abierto nuestro gobierno y mantenga comida en la mesa para las personas mayores, las familias y las personas con discapacidades estadounidenses\u201d. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Durante el cierre de 2013, el Departamento de Agricultura de EE. UU. (USDA), que administra el Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP), pudo utilizar fondos de contingencia y la autoridad restante de la Ley Estadounidense de Recuperaci\u00f3n y Reinversi\u00f3n (ARRA) para mantener la asistencia alimentaria disponible para familias durante el cierre. Esa autoridad ya expir\u00f3, y si el gobierno federal vuelve a cerrar en ocho d\u00edas, el USDA no tendr\u00e1 suficientes fondos de contingencia para cubrir el costo total de la asistencia alimentaria para octubre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Los funcionarios de la administraci\u00f3n contin\u00faan explorando opciones en torno a los obst\u00e1culos legales y t\u00e9cnicos que plantear\u00eda un cierre para reducir el impacto en las familias que dependen de SNAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">El programa SNAP ayuda a 45 millones de estadounidenses de bajos ingresos cada mes a proporcionar alimentos para ellos y sus familias. Seg\u00fan el USDA, m\u00e1s del 60 por ciento de los participantes de SNAP eran ni\u00f1os (44%), ancianos (9%) y discapacitados (10%). El programa inyecta miles de millones de d\u00f3lares cada mes a la econom\u00eda estadounidense y es el principal programa federal para aliviar directamente el hambre entre las familias m\u00e1s vulnerables de Estados Unidos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley, the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today decried the potential loss or delay of food assistance for millions of Americans if the government shuts down next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,44,57],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-agriculture","tag-jobs-and-the-economy","tag-seniors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley, Stabenow Decry Potential Loss of Food Assistance if Republicans Shut Down Government - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-stabenow-decry-potential-loss-of-food-assistance-if-republicans-shut-down-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley, Stabenow Decry Potential Loss of Food Assistance if Republicans Shut Down Government - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; 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