There's no reason to withhold SNAP benefits. There's a $5 billion contingency fund.

[Scrivener7]

The money is there. He's probably pocketing it as he enjoys the pain of others.

This information should be spread. There is NO REASON FOR THIS. And incidentally, it disproportionately affects red states. But I doubt it will make them get their heads out of their asses.

From Fortune, which is not exactly a left wing source:

https://fortune.com/2025/10/26/snap-payments-food-stamps-government-shutdown-usda-trump/
The Trump administration won’t tap $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing, so no SNAP payments will go out next weekend
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1, raising the stakes for families nationwide as the government shutdown drags on.
The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP, flowing into November. That program helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries.
*snip*
Democratic lawmakers have written to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins requesting to use contingency funds to cover the bulk of next month’s benefits.
But a USDA memo that surfaced Friday says “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” The document says the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas.
*snip*
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., accused Republicans and Trump of not agreeing to negotiate. “The reality is, if they sat down to try to negotiate, we could probably come up with something pretty quickly,” Murphy said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We could open up the government on Tuesday or Wednesday, and there wouldn’t be any crisis in the food stamp program.”

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hungry and sick people are pawns, used as a bargaining chip.

[rampartd]

2. louisiana will cover snap for "select recipients."

whatever that means.

[haele]

10. Probably by zip code.

Make sure the right registered voting base gets fed, if you know what I mean.

[LonePirate]

3. That $5B contingency fund will only cover SNAP for 16-17 days.

Sure, it is better than nothing; but it is not some sort of savior for the program.

[Scrivener7]

11. Give half the funds and you make a difference for a month.

I'm sorry, but I simply don't believe that a government that can give $40 billion to Argentinian cattle barons can't keep it's own people from hunger.

[yellow dahlia]

49. Hunger and homelessness.

He is creating a "shit-hole" country.

[Quanta]

4. It "owns the libs"

n/t

[sop]

5. Like the people he allowed to die during the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump believes all SNAP recipients are Democrats.

His plan is to starve them out so they'll put pressure on their representatives.

[Bengus81]

45. Yep...and no one in the Republican party is on the ACA

Keep thinking that way Trump you dipshit........

[durablend]

6. The cruelty is the point

[sakabatou]

32. +10

[riversedge]

7. k and r.

[taxi]

8. So many voters wanted a businessman to run things. Well, hello!

Businessmen aren't making enough money from SNAP. Any right winger complaining about the loss of benefits needs to be reminded of this.

[haele]

15. However, Walmart makes a lot of money off SNAP.

They and other grocery and transportation corporations will start pushing back, they managed to halt the attempt at SNAP cuts during the Tea Party shutdown.
Johnson's attempt to initiate an overall dissolution of Congress is causing this; SNAP cuts were never part of earlier shutdowns.

[leftstreet]

18. +1

You'd think grocery conglomerates would be yelling about this. Imagine the revenue loss

[taxi]

22. Yes, the grocers are single, large voices. Grocers, of all people, are the ones who need to make their voices heard.

The maga crowd listens to corporate media and believe every word. The voice of many must leave the echo chamber of AM radio and podcasts. When the grocers start telling the truth about prices, shrinkflation, and unavailable products then the people will begin to make the turn towards truth.

[Bengus81]

48. And health insurance companies are going to lose 20M customers

What do those fuckers think about that? Or do they think that people paying $200 per month will suddenly find the cash to pay $1000 per month...or more?

[yellow dahlia]

50. Turning us into a second rate, aka "shit-hole" country.

[IronLionZion]

20. Correct, and farmers too

plenty of people who sell food make money from SNAP. It's bonkers that MAGA wants to screw all of them just to screw hungry people.

[taxi]

23. Yes, the grocers are single, large voices. Grocers, of all people, are the ones who need to make their voices heard.

The maga crowd listens to corporate media and believe every word. The voice of many must leave the echo chamber of AM radio and podcasts. When the grocers start telling the truth about prices, shrinkflation, and unavailable products then the people will begin to make the turn towards truth.

[Marthe48]

9. kim jong-il starves his people

and like the felon traitor, he doesn't go hungry.

[progree]

25. Well, Kim feeds his generals well

and they really appreciate it

[travelingthrulife]

28. That is why I fail to understand why Trump is working so hard to piss off the military.

[Scrivener7]

30. And lots of military families depend on SNAP.

[progressoid]

36. So those people leave the military and stop getting is his way

That leaves him with more sycophants.

[Scrivener7]

12. Somehow, we have $40 billion for Argentinian cattle barons, but not for our own hungry children.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[synni]

33. Adults feel hungry, too

Why doesn't anybody ever care about hungry adults, disabled people, or senior citizens?

(Edited to correct error created by so-called autocorrect)

[Elessar Zappa]

40. People do care.

But to starve children is particularly diabolical.

[Scrivener7]

47. Seriously, dude?

[KPN]

39. THIS x 1000!

[CTyankee]

13. I love my Senator! He's my favorite "in office" Dem right now. Obama is my GOAT, he and Michelle.

[Scrivener7]

14. He is one of the ones who seems to get what is happening. I love him too.

[yellow dahlia]

51. Chris Murphy!

[twodogsbarking]

16. If he owns the golf course why do we have to pay him to play golf and pay the golf course too.

[Hope22]

19. Every state governor should be screaming.

They really don’t care about their residents at all. The money is set aside for emergencies. If this isn’t one I just don’t know!

[DeeDeeNY]

21. How satisfied now are all those who complained about the price of eggs under Biden???

[travelingthrulife]

24. Are we sure the criminals in the white house haven't raided that fund for golf

and cryptocurrency?

[CaptainTruth]

26. "the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas"

With Trump in charge, the entire US is a disaster area.

[Ziggysmom]

27. Another question is WHY in the richest country on earth do ONE IN EIGHT people require

food assistance in the first place????

The USA devotes a smaller proportion of its GDP to social welfare programs than most any industrialized country. But corporate welfare…… that’s ok with GOPukers.

[questionseverything]

43. Here's the thing, it should be 7 out of 8 receive snap

Snap creates wealth for the farmer/producer, the picker, the processor and the grocery

For every dollar spent on snap $1.79 in GDP is created ( gross domestic product is what keeps our economy moving)

If the guide line were less strict , it would help the economy grow faster and less people would resent “ some” people getting help

[allegorical oracle]

29. Where are all those God-fearing Republican Christians? Hypocrites. nt

[BlueWavePsych]

31. Make America Hungry Again

[maxsolomon]

34. SNAP is a "Democrat Program".

If Repukes had their druthers, it wouldn't exist. Along with WIC, SS, Medicaid, Medicare, ACA...

They will use SNAP payments as leverage on the Senate Dems to fold on the shutdown, and there's naught to be done about it.

[ChazInAz]

35. My suspicion:

Those funds have already vanished into Krasnov's bottomless pockets

[UTUSN]

37. K&R

[BlueTsunami2018]

38. It's leverage and nothing more.

They’re the terrorist holding the child at gunpoint demanding a chopper or the kid gets it.

They simply do not give a fuck about anything except raw power. Give us everything we want or we’ll starve your people.

And that’s what they consider the people who need food assistance, our people. Freeloaders, leeches, lazy ghetto people, fraudsters and so on. Even though this is an across the political spectrum program, they frame it as people who don’t deserve assistance because they won’t work. Democrats in other words.

This is an opportunity to claim those people as our own. Working class folks who are being screwed over by this absurd system we live under.

Somehow, I don’t think they’ll take it and run. Not that way at any rate.

[Martin68]

41. Am I the only one who thinks the fact that 1 in 8 Americans need financial assistance to eat means that the

inequality in our system is obscenely unfair and shameful? Ever since FDR's New Deal the Democratic Party has tried to make sure every American earns a living wage, a roof over their heads, and affordable health care. Meanwhile, the GOP has done everything they can to help the rich get richer at the expense of the Americans they are supposed to be representing.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. Sociopaths don't care. Totally indifferent to others suffering. Never experienced hunger or lack of resources. n/t

[mwb970]

44. The cruelty of the MAGA Fascists is simply overwhelming.

[mdbl]

46. He needs that money for his ballroom and fascist boyfriends abroad.

Thanks for doing nothing about this horrible president, Repugs in Congress.

[Jack Valentino]

52. The "reason" is that Trump does not realize how many of his OWN supporters are on SNAP,

and thinks they are mostly Democratic 'people of color'....

(same as he thought COVID would mostly kill Democratic voters in the big cities,
and thus deliberately dragged his feet on a covid response---
He WANTS DEMOCRATS to DIE!)

((and, can't say for sure that I don't feel the same about Republican voters
who won't have a 'come to Jesus moment' at THIS stage of the game....))

(((and CERTAINLY can't say that I don't feel the same
about the Hitler-wannabe NAZI-IN-CHIEF 'at this stage of the game'! )))

[Emile]

53. Fascists have no shame.