Sharp rise in food insecurity in America due to shutdown and SNAP

[Husseinisdoingfine]

A combination of Federal workers not being paid due to the shutdown, and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program | It's a government program to help people who cannot afford food) being cancelled and not delivered due to the shutdown has created a spike in people reaching out to food banks for essentials, such as diapers, baby formula, and other essentials. 

It's estimated that just yesterday, 1.4 million federal workers were not paid. 

That's the tragedy of this shutdown, politicians are playing with people's lives. The paychecks of congress are not being withheld, but the workers who have mortgages, tuition, car payments, and others are being withheld. 

 

[DocWatts]

If you can afford to, consider making a donation to a food bank in your community.

Because the fascist regime that controls all three branches of our government - Does. Not. Give. A. Shit. if Americans are going hungry.

If anything, Trump and Stephen Miller see millions of hungry desperate people as a benefit, since the regime has been going out of their way to provoke riots as a pretext for a military crackdown. They've failed to do so with the terror tactics that ICE is employing, children and families going hungry gives them another opportunity.

The US House is currently shut down because speaker of the House MAGA Mike Johnson does not want a vote to release the Epstein files - is in fact refusing to inaugurate a newly elected Democratic representative for that very purpose, because it would give the House enough votes to release the files.

Senate Republicans meanwhile are lockstep with their Cult leader who refuse to negotiate with Senate Democrats, who are demanding rollbacks to healthcare cuts and enforceable guardrails to illegal impoundments and rescissions of Congressionally approved spending.

Meanwhile, Trump has earmarked $40 billion to prop up Argentina's failing economic experiment, while refusing to allocate the tiny fraction of that amount that it would take to fund SNAP until the end of the year.

Edited Sunday at 06:23 PM by DocWatts

[oldhandle]

How about that Ballroom though?

[oldhandle]

I'll say it's worse than they don't give a shit, they actively want lower class people to starve and die.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

$400 million for a ballroom while the most vulnerable starve. Literally Marie Antoinette sh*t.

[DocWatts]

1 hour ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

$400 million for a ballroom while the most vulnerable starve. Literally Marie Antoinette sh*t.

$40 billion dollars to prop up Argentina's failing austerity economy for the benefit of billionaire investors while Americans go hungry.

Edited Tuesday at 02:21 AM by DocWatts

[Joshe]

Maybe hunger will be enough to move them in 2028, or maybe Fox and Musk will put the word out that the hunger was actually caused by Obama and Biden. Hard to say. 

[Yimpa]

…  Have no fear

Your local favorite Dasherr is here to save the day. 

https://about.doordash.com/en-us/news/snap-shutdown-announcement

Back to work… 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I used to volunteer at a Christian food bank / charity. Maybe I should go back for a few days until this shutdown ends. Just as a kind gesture. 

[Husseinisdoingfine]

 

[Yimpa]