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

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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.
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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.
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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.”