“On his official Senate site, Fetterman commits to protecting and expanding the SNAP food-assistance program and pushing for universal free school lunch.”
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All four cited sources are reachable and every quote is verified verbatim. Fetterman demonstrably LED, not merely voted, on both prongs of this promise. (1) He led the introduction of the School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act, stating "I'm proud to lead the fight to cancel our nation's school meal debt" (quote verified exactly, including the source's grammatical quirk "is shouldn't even exist"). (2) He authored/introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act (one of three introducing senators), a SNAP-purchasing expansion that passed the House 384-35 (verified). (3) As Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition he vowed to protect and expand SNAP: "We need to be expanding these vital nutrition programs, not cutting them" (verified). (4) He cosponsored the Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023 — the "universal free school lunch" prong — though the source clarifies this bill was originally authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Fetterman is a cosponsor, not the lead author. Leadership bar for CHAMPIONED (sponsored/authored/led beyond voting) is met via his subcommittee chairmanship plus multiple authored/led bills. Confidence trimmed from 0.93 to 0.90 because the specific universal-free-school-lunch bill is one he cosponsors rather than authors; his leadership on that prong rests most directly on the adjacent, self-led School Lunch Debt Cancellation Act. The promise concerns advocacy ("commits to... and pushing for") rather than enactment, so unpassed status of the major bills does not bar the rating.
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