If the government shutdown lingers into February, millions of Americans will suffer from disrupted SNAP benefits, colloquially known as food stamps.
According to a Monday CBS News report, SNAP is automatically renewed every year, but Congress has not approved funding past January. There is a $3 million reserve of emergency SNAP funds, but that will fall far short of the country’s needs. For comparison, in September 2018, $4.7 billion was distributed nationwide in SNAP benefits.
SNAP isn’t the only critical nutritional program at risk because of the shutdown. Per CBS, the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) are currently receiving no federal funding, having to depend on state reserves.
tRumpleThinSkin emphasizes with them and feels their hunger pains. There was that time when he had to eat a cold Big Double McAwful when the microwave on his plane was one the blink.
So unfair…sad
“There are many SNAP recipients telling me to keep the Shutdown going. They say they’d rather their families starve to death than not get a big, beautiful, strong steel slat wall on the Southern border a thousand miles away from them.”
How long would the shutdown last if the people governing the nation had to go without food for the duration?
This is no longer a decent country.
On a serious note withholding SNAP payments to anyone, children especially, who are nutritionally challenged is criminal. Not only does it negatively impact a child’s brain development and ability to learn it’s downright cruel.
Withhold congressional and Executive branch pay but keep these people fed. This coincides with the season when there is scant excess fresh food available from agricultural entities. Food banks are stressed right now.
He’s OK with separating children from their families and putting them in camps, why not starve some of the natives? Absolutely disgusting but so completely in character.