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.
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.