Starving 770,000 children in the name of curtailing “waste, fraud, and abuse” is the most anti-American we could do. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Someone explain to me like I'm five why we have "work requirements" for food stamps. If you have a job, you should be able to afford the food you need to survive. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"The CBPP suggested that “it’s very likely that the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 1.5 million since July 2025.” If states can’t meet the federal government’s new requirements for SNAP, they may have to take on a collective $9 billion in food-stamp costs themselves."
So the US is now starving people (including 1.5 million children) by reducing SNAP benefits and making them harder to get.
Donald Trump’s Holodomor against poor people.
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www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... In essence major American companies will be allowed to pay minimum wages, while the wealthiest food growing country in the world is going to strip away SNAP benefits from mothers, children, veterans, the disabled…This IS the GOP.
#Gift about America's Starve the Poor program.
Note this is the OPPOSITE of what Jesus taught. Providing some food to those without money should be basic Christianity.
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Once broken, never the same again.
A lot of people are going to needlessly suffer from the GOP's kissing Trump's ass.
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The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis. If states can’t meet the new federal requirements for #SNAP, they may have to take on a collective $9 billion in costs—forcing legislators to choose which kinds of social-welfare programs and who should receive aid.
"Rollins has described SNAP as a 'broken program,' but these changes aren’t guaranteed to restore trust in the system. Instead, the push to repair SNAP could end up breaking it even more." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Oh, dear God! So many people who I work with depend on SNAP. Faith based organizations simply can't keep up with the demand not to mention the funding.
“If states are able to lower their error rates, SNAP could be transformed for the better. But if they fail to do so by the fast-approaching deadline, it’s hard to see who wins: not food-stamp recipients, not the states that will have their budgets upended, and not the administration…”