Submitted 2 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-food-lines-snap-6b55e2c21c0198f3309f3a45a55f33b6
Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.
Archived version: archive.is/…/government-shutdown-food-lines-snap-…
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federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.
No, they were not cut off due to the shutdown. Payments had not been stopped in any prior shutdown and didn’t have to be stopped in this one. Trump and Republicans specifically chose for this to happen to put more pressure on Democrats. They don’t care if Americans starve to death, while Democrats do. They are starving Americans because Democrats are trying to stop Americans from losing healthcare.
Technically funding was cut off, but they do have emergency funding that is meant to be used in cases like this but fascists refuse to do so.
The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” cbpp.org/…/snaps-contingency-reserve-is-available…
I didn’t say benefits were not cut off. I’m challenging the assertion that the mere fact that the government is shutdown is the cause of funding being cut off, like the phrase I quoted implicitly assets. The shutdown alone is not the reason funds for SNAP were cut off, and my proof of my assertion is the fact that funding has never been cut off in previous shutdowns.
This means someone must have chosen to execute this shutdown differently on purpose. Republicans are in charge of all branches of government, so they are the most likely culprit.
Oh look, Soviet bread lines in the “greatest country on Earth”. Sehr wunderbar.
Really showing the rest of us how a country is supposed to be run.
Like we don’t already know it’s a farm not a country.
Well, you can kill Trump or you can get in line for food.
Dang, moderated for advocating for the death of Donald Trump. Don’t advocate for the DEAD OF TRUMP
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Self-proclaimed richest country in the world can’t afford to feed their own people. What a joke.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Always has been. By design.
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 1 day ago
Oh they CAN afford to feed their own people, they CAN afford to house the homeless, they just don’t want to.