{"id":25843,"date":"2025-10-29T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25843\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:13:07","slug":"desantis-declines-to-declare-emergency-over-snap-benefit-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25843\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis declines to declare emergency over SNAP benefit delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis said he will not declare a state of emergency to address food insecurity as nearly 3 million Floridians who rely on SNAP benefits are expected to miss their November 1 payments due to the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All 43 Democratic members of the state legislature sent DeSantis a letter urging him to declare a state of emergency on food insecurity to help residents facing delays in receiving their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. This would allow the state to make up the difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During a news conference in Tampa, DeSantis dismissed the request and criticized Democratic lawmakers for not addressing what he sees as the root cause of the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDid those Democrats write a letter to Chuck Schumer asking him to stop filibustering the spending? Come on,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Florida Department of Children and Families said families will still receive their November benefits once the government reopens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) &#8211; Governor Ron DeSantis said he will not declare a state of emergency to address&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1442,28,15367,2582,412,414,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-25843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-cody-butler","tag-florida","tag-food-assistance","tag-government-shutdown","tag-ron-desantis","tag-snap","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}