Those among the 42 million enrolled in the program worry that cutoff of the benefit will send their lives into a tailspin
Across the country, Americans who depend on government help to buy groceries are preparing for the worst.
As a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Donald Trump has threatened to, for the first time in the program’s more than 60-year history, cut off benefits provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP). A federal judge last week prevented the US Department of Agriculture from suspending Snap altogether, but the Trump administration now says enrollees will receive only half of their usual benefits.
The Guardian wanted to know how important Snap was to the approximately 42 million people enrolled in the program. Many of those who responded to our callout were elderly, or out of the workforce because of significant mental of physical health issues, and worried that a cutoff of the benefit would send their lives into a tailspin.
Americans are waking up and realizing “the cruelty is the point”. Slowly but surely.
The hilarious part of this is people should start to realize that having a full time job and still needing assistance that the government supplies was always part of the scheme, and kept you all complacent and malleable. Now that the government is not going to hold up to its end of the bargain is going to expose the heinous nature of their schemes and the near criminal nature of not being paid an equitable wage for the work you are delivering. It’s all a big dumb game, and you lost! Time for a new game, eh?
Just what the fuck do some of these people think the Republican platform truly IS?
Sure, they distract dumbass racists, transphobes, xenophobes with the prospect of punching down on “the others”, but the true heart of conservatism is extracting money from the poor and middle class and sending it upwards.
If that means kids get to starve, oh well.
Then realize that many of them voted for this because they’d rather starve themselves than help those that don’t look or act like they do.
All peoples should be fed and housed. Full stop; no conditions. Rich, poor, parent, single, married, immigrant, citizen, young, old, political affiliation, whatever. Food insecurity is a horrible problem and shouldn’t be a worry for anybody these days, especially for the kids.
At least 16 million of them could not possibly have voted for this.
An estimated 39% of SNAP recipients are children.
We need Universal Basic Incomes, for everyone.
Hey… What’s my nose doing on the floor!? It was just on my face a minute ago!
Why’s this bloody knife in my hand? I couldn’t have done this… Could I? No… I don’t think so.
I should check it for fingerprints. What!? Only my prints are on it!?
Stranger and stranger…
“Hey kids! Sorry, we can’t eat this week because the neighbors voted Trump. Oopsie.”
It’s almost as if… it’s a sedition… no it couldn’t possibly be
