MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps

[marmar]

MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps
SNAP benefits are set to lapse — and the right is spreading tired, racist tropes about recipients

By Sophia Tesfaye
Senior Writer
Published October 31, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) The Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the most successful anti-hunger programs in American history. By providing food purchasing benefits to low-income households, SNAP helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries. Now, with the Trump White House exploiting the month-long government shutdown to allow SNAP benefits to lapse on Saturday, the right-wing media is working overtime to argue that, in this time of financial peril, the food stamp program should be harder to access.

“It is insane that there are 42 million Americans on food stamps. That is a wild statistic,” the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro said on his podcast. “And the amount of government dependency in this country is just way too high, period.” Right-wing podcaster Stephen Crowder similarly complained on X: “It’s rewarding people who abuse the system.” Conservative pundit Ann Coulter claimed that “the federal government has been paying Americans not to work by feeding, housing and medicating them for ‘free,’ and then wonder why we have so many useless, jobless, helpless people.” Slamming Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s attempt to pass a standalone funding mechanism for SNAP, Coulter suggested “40 million of them could get jobs.”

More than one in four American children live in SNAP households, and more than 80% of those households earn less than the federal poverty line, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). For a family of four, the average monthly benefit works out to less than $2 per individual meal per day. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed the House and Senate on party-line votes in July, cut $187 billion from the program over 10 years — “the largest cut to SNAP in history,” according to CPBB — and drastically limited eligibility.

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Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued the administration on Tuesday to block the cutoff. On Thursday, a federal judge suggested the administration would violate the law if it barred access to the funds. “Congress told you what to do if there is no money,” Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, told the administration’s lawyers, according to the Washington Post. “You need to figure out how to stretch that emergency money for now.” ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/31/maga-salivates-at-the-chance-to-cut-off-food-stamps/

[Lovie777]

1. While other magas go hungry...........

cheering on their fellow magas to suffer. Way to go...........................

[tanyev]

2. MAGAs on food stamps: "You're gonna cut off everybody except me, right?"

[nycbos]

3. How many of them are on food stamps themselves?

It's like those idiots who don't know the difference between the ACA and Obamacare.

[Jacson6]

4. On youtube there are AI videos of overweight women refusing to pay with SNAP for their food.

Of course, the hate mongers gotta hate.

[Midnight Writer]

5. The main problem is not that folks aren't working. The problem is folks aren't getting paid.

To Republicans, federal food assistance is not to help those in need.

It is to subsidize cheap labor for corporations.

Tens of millions of Americans are working their asses off and are still below the poverty line.

No one is refusing to work so they can get that sweet 2 to 6 dollar a day in SNAP benefits.

[pecosbob]

6. When they're cut off they'll begin to get the point...not until.