Governors and national public policy groups are warning that new changes in funding policies around the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could cause costs to balloon by billions of dollars if Congress does not act to exclude error rate data collected during last year’s federal shutdown.
In a letter to congressional leaders, the public policy groups said the record-long shutdown, which coincided with implementation of new error rate requirements under President Donald Trump’s reconciliation bill, caused “significant operational disruption” from which state and local governments are still trying to dig out.
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