Approximately 42 million Americans—about one in eight people—who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stand to go hungry after November 1, when benefits are scheduled to expire.
“Bottom line, the well has run dry,” reads a message explicitly blaming Democrats on the Department of Agriculture’s website.
A coalition of 23 attorneys general and three governors are fighting for the latter. They argue that the USDA not only has the funds to continue feeding Americans via SNAP through the month of November, it also has “both the authority and legal duty” to do so.
The USDA has a contingency fund for these circumstances: when funding from the federal government slows down or, in the worst case, comes to a halt.
Trump is refusing to allow the USDA to dip into that fund which the USDA is legally entitled to use. Trump and his Admin are the sole reason this money isn’t being distributed out to Americans.
It’s funny because the Cons are lying by framing the shutdown as being caused by Dems. Trump withholding SNAP benefits is a crack in that lie.
Whether ordinary, low-income Americans realize that is yet to be seen. I’m sure the polls on the matter will continue to get worse against Cons.
I highly doubt it. They aren’t that smart and they don’t consume the same news sources that the rest of us do.
They’ll hear nothing but republican lies. Even if they hear something sort of resembling the truth they’ll dismiss it.
Exactly this. They’ve already been given Democrats as the scapegoat, which is much easier for them to swallow than thinking outside of the propaganda they hear every time they look at a screen.