Jay Kuo: The Hunger Games

[Nevilledog]

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-hunger-games-402

Tomorrow, on November 1, SNAP funding runs out for 42 million Americans. And it turns out, Republicans aren’t just okay with that. As Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) decried, they’re actively weaponizing hunger as a political bargaining chip, all to try and force Democrats to abandon their healthcare demands and vote to reopen the government.

The decision by the White House and Republicans not to fund SNAP is a deliberate policy choice. Its goal is to inflict pain and suffering, something this sado-populist party is now well known for.

The White House could choose to keep SNAP funded through the shutdown, but it is deliberately choosing instead not to, all to increase political pressure on the Democrats. And we need to make that clear everywhere to everyone.

How do we know they’re playing these hunger games? For starters, as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) pointed out, SNAP benefits have been maintained through every government shutdown in the past. Somehow, the GOP can’t seem to do that here.

But even looking just at the current shutdown, we can see that the Republicans are lying. Today, let’s take a closer look at their recent record of finding money when they needed to during this shutdown, and what they’re now trying to actively hide from the American people.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP will starve as many children as it takes to get what they want.

Money and power.

[essaynnc]

2. The Republicans are jerks. End of discussion

Are they doing this to try to motivate hungry people to riot? What a great excuse to send in the military!! I think that's exactly what they want to do and this may be the motivation.