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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture, was joined by Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02) on a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins expressing deep concern regarding the Trump Administration’s decision to stop $500 million in Commodity Credit Corporation funding for food banks allocated through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Agriculture, has introduced The Hunger Free Future Act, new legislation to protect Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from backdoor benefit cuts. 

VIDEO: Press Conference Announcing The Hunger Free Future Act

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) co-led a letter authored by Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02) urging the Trump administration to reverse its recent announcement to shut down six regional offices in the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of General Counsel.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11) released the following statement on Trump Administration’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education:

“The federal government plays a limited, but crucial role in supporting American educational systems––yet this new Republican scheme to eliminate the Department of Education will devastate our nation’s students from preschool to high school.

Washington, DC — Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Vice Ranking Member on the House Agriculture Committee, joined Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, and House Agriculture Committee Democrats in sending a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) and Agriculture Committee Chairman “GT” Thompson (PA-15), urging bipartisan negotiations on the farm bill and opposing harmful cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).