November payments have been significantly delayed, forcing families to go hungry. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to distribute benefits in full by Friday.
Haley is one of more than 40 million people across the country who count on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a federal benefit that dates back to the late 1930s. But disruptions to SNAP, also known as food stamps, during what has become the longest government shutdown in American history have left recipients facing imminent hunger, unable to restock their pantries or refrigerators.
Although the Trump administration said partial funds would be distributed this month — a response to a lawsuit challenging its plan to suspend SNAP payments during the shutdown — recipients who were due to receive their benefits this week have empty balances.
On Thursday, the federal judge in that lawsuit ordered the Trump administration to distribute SNAP funding in full to states by Friday, though it remains to be seen whether recipients’ electronic benefits cards will be refilled that quickly. Previously, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins had said it could take several weeks to deliver the benefits.
Take it out of Trump’s bank account.
This but unironically. Garnish his wages.
I wasn’t being ironic. I mean it. Take it all, and then move to the next Psychopathic Oligarch Traitor. I can offer a list to get them started, if they’d like.
All that’s needed to destabilize a nation is two missed meals, or whatever.
It’s been very telling this week at work.
I live in a very red area and work in a majority red industry. I hear people talking shit about “the libs” all day. I hear tons of coworkers talking shit about anyone on government assistance because the “welfare queens just want free stuff with no work”
It seems that just under 3/4 of the people I work with were getting SNAP benefits.
A box has been set up in the break room so people can bring in food, and others can take what they need.
The shit talking has stopped, at least. No jokes about “welfare queens” anymore.
I have recently had a shift on perception, and I’m trying to get everyone to see it, too.
You know those St Jude commercials with the cute cancer kids, and the crying parents, and everyone so happy that St Jude is taking care of those kids, and covering all the costs? People watch those commercials, shed a tear, and send money.
It doesn’t occur to them that these facilities don’t exist anywhere else, not because America is so great, but because in nearly every other country, parents don’t have to be rich, or have expensive health insurance, or hit the charity lottery, or the PR lottery, they just take their kid to the hospital, and they get the care they need.
Instead of sending your money to a hospital that is doing what our country should be doing anyway, and use your money to elect candidates that will actually improve the health care in this country, and not just use it as a tool to exploit our citizens.
And now we have employers setting up food banks for their employees, and people think that’s an honorable thing to do, understanding the hardships of their employees.
But if they truly understood the hardships of their employees, they would PAY them enough that they wouldn’t have to count on the government to supplement their employees living costs.
IF we ever take back our country from the EVIL TRAITORS, we will have to rebuild a lot of our infrastructure, giving us an unprecedented opportunity to build it properly. One of the things we should do is track every American corporation’s reliance on government programs to supplement employee pay. They should have to pay the government back for every penny that their employees take in government assistance, along with a hefty fine. That will make it more economically advantageous to pay the employees directly, rather than count on the government to feed them.
Many charities are just scams that exploits the deliberate weaknesses of our system. We should fix our system, and reduce our reliance on these phony support schemes.
I’ve been thinking about almost the same thing a lot lately
Specifically the impact and ethics of donating to support private assistance programs. I worry that donating to things like St. Jude’s is just reinforcing the status quo. Similarly, if I’m donating to support food shelves now, would that be reinforcing the idea that government benefits, like SNAP, are unnecessary? Would I be reinforcing the idea that government doesn’t work?
By and large, poorer people that need a social safety net tend to vote Republicans into office. Is the negative impact of conservative policies obfuscated by private support temporarily plugging the gaps?
Healthcare especially. The US has a fundamentally inefficient healthcare system, but most people don’t realize how inefficient it is because the costs are spread around so much. The fact employers pay much of the premiums makes people forget that the premiums are actually absurdly expensive. Same story with ACA subsidies. Most people couldn’t afford ACA without the subsidies. Rather than racking up more debt, I feel like we need to fix our inefficient system first. We lack the political will to do so though, since most people don’t understand how expensive health insurance actually is
It doesn’t appear your company pays a living wage if 3/4 its employees need Government assistance for food.
Hope the box had leopard spots on it.
Well it’s Friday he still hasn’t paid now what other strongly worded demand?
the disappointment and surprise was not in our government failing to feed families but the lack of civil disobedience and rioting
why the fuck are we not in the fucking streets right now? been waking up everyday this week to business as usual
would not even know people were starving here
why the fuck are we not in the fucking streets right now? been waking up everyday this week to business as usual
would not even know people were starving here
This is the thing about America that bewilders me the most. I would expect such a response in North Korea, Russia maybe.
Because of fear.
Know right wtf
Worst timeline ever
The more meals people miss the angrier they get. A run on corporate grocery stores would be interesting. Food is a human right.
The Venn Diagram of SNAP recipients and firearm owners is not an insignificant overlap. This won’t end well as people get go hungry and children cry themselves to sleep from hunger.
Yep,
mostjust under half of welfare recievers are republican, and are more likely to own guns. That sounds great, maybe the republicans will actually do something useful for once.1 month later:
Chaos insues as an armed militia calling themselves “Snap for whites” has raided the democratic convention, killing 3 and injuring another 4. The local police were called in to assist, but were impeded by the fact that they have been trained to only shoot colored targets.
Edit: evidently more democrats recieve welfare, as far as i can tell both proportionally and as an absolute value.
your uncle tom bootlicking for the masters does not help quit blaming your fellow citizens in all this when it is both parties and the owner class paying them that is at fault
Welfare recipients are not monolithic and represent a wide range of political affiliations, with both Democrats and Republicans having a significant number of recipients. However, data shows that Democrats represent a higher percentage of welfare recipients like those on SNAP and Medicaid, although conservatives are also significantly represented in these programs. There is no direct correlation between poverty and party, but when comparing the two, Democrats are more likely to receive government assistance compared to Republicans, although an equal percentage of liberals and conservatives report receiving some form of government assistance.
Party affiliation and welfare recipients
Democrats: A higher percentage of welfare recipients are Democrats compared to Republicans.
Republicans: A significant number of welfare recipients are Republicans. This is because a large portion of people who are reliant on welfare in the US are Republicans, who may be disproportionately reliant on social safety nets in areas like SNAP.
Ideology and welfare recipients
Conservatives: A study by the Pew Research Center found that self-identified conservatives were equally likely to have received food stamps (17%) as liberals (17%).
Liberals: About 22% of Democrats reported receiving food stamps, compared to 10% of Republicans.
Moderates: About 42% of moderates have received benefits, and an equal percentage of liberals (42%) have also received benefits.
Political affiliation of congressional representatives
Democrats: 73 of the 100 congressional districts with the highest percentage of SNAP households were represented by Democrats in 2023.
Republicans: 27 of the congressional districts had representatives from the Republican party.
and both parties are very propolice
Oh wow, it does appear that more democrats recieve foodstamps than republicans. I appreciate that bit of info. As for the rest of your comment, im not sure how to even go about breaking down that.
If republicans dont want to get blamed for being pieces of shit, they shouldnt be pieces of shit, simple as.
Had to go back and reread my own comment, ive been posting a lot tonight. And more of those posts were shitting on democrats than republicans. Reason being simple, republicans are shit but democrats are SUPPOSED to be good. Shitting on republicans is easy, but it feels like bullying a disabled kid because everyone including the republicans know that they are a joke. So I’d much rather punch up at the people who claim to trying to help while ensuring the ratchet effect remains in full swing.
So what in the hell are you even trying to argue against? The only point i made is that you cant rely on republicans to do anything good, even by accident. If youre arguing for the republicans then thats really fucking gross, especially for someone projecting “bootlicker” onto people.
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I wonder how many of each party live in more left and less left locations? Obviously I am using “left” in the broadest of terms.
Unfortunately the billionaires and corporations won’t be on the receiving end, it will be everyday people and small business owners.
