Georgia Senators vote against stopgap funding bill

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Georgia U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are two of 40 U.S. Senators who voted with their party Sunday night against a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government funded through Jan. 30th.

Healthcare is the sticking point for both Georgia Senators.

Warnock says Americans should not have to decide between putting food on the table and affordable health insurance.

Ossoff says the funding bill would double healthcare premiums for more than 1.4 million Americans. He also says it would put nearly half a million Americans at risk of losing coverage altogether.

“The President refuses to fix it, and withholds SNAP benefits, while the House has not even come to work for a week,” Ossoff said.

Meanwhile, Georgia Gov. Kemp criticized Ossoff’s vote on X, saying his vote was a vote “to keep troops unpaid, SNAP benefits withheld and millions of hardworking Americans suffering.”

.@Ossoff voted yet again to keep our troops unpaid, SNAP benefits withheld, and millions of hardworking Americans suffering.

Even when members of his own party chose to do the right thing and reopen the government, Sen. Ossoff did what Schumer told him to. Georgians won’t…

— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) November 10, 2025

However, Georgia’s Department of Human Services announced it will issue partial SNAP benefits to Georgians of up to 65% of the amount an eligible person would normally receive.

If an eligible recipient’s distribution date has already passed, they should receive their benefits on Tuesday.