Food Stamp Benefits May Run Out in November, Officials Warn
Food Stamp Benefits May Run Out in November, Officials Warn
nytimes.com
If the government shutdown continues into November, about 42 million low-income people could face severe disruptions to their food stamp benefits, the Agriculture Department warned in a letter to state agencies last week, saying that the federal government would have “insufficient funds.”
More than a dozen states have since warned that food stamp recipients may experience significant delays in obtaining benefits next month, see their aid reduced or not receive assistance at all.
The letter, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, said that the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service ... directed state agencies to pause sending vendors the electronic files typically used to load the benefits for November.
“We’re going to run out of money in two weeks,” Brooke L. Rollins, the agriculture secretary, told reporters at the White House on Thursday. “So you’re talking about millions and millions of vulnerable families, of hungry families that are not going to have access to these programs because of this shutdown.”
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Nearly 42 million people participated in the food stamp program in May, the month with the latest available data. They received an average of $188, at a total cost of about $8 billion.
Tried my best to summarize down to most direct and pertinent facts via cutting out with (...) elipsis, but also, here's the whole text in case NYT paywalls you:
So uh yeah, ~42 million people set to start starving in about two weeks... uh... good luck everyone!
And they'll spin it as "Democrats cut off your food stamps."
They literally did, I dropped it out of the summary with (...), check the full text.
Even though it is literally the case that Johnson has just recessed/vacated Congress.
Its a nonsense situation:
He's saying Congress will come back into session when the budget is passed... but the budget almost certainly cannot be passed without Congress being in session.
He's the Speaker of the House, and he literally won't allow Congress to... do Congress things.
Because if Congress gets reopened, and Grajalva (sp?) gets sworn in, then the Epstein files get released.
Effrctively, the Republican party is now going to starve ~40 million people to protect wealthy pedophiles.
America.
As Jesus intended.
These folks really couldn't get any more Snidely Whiplash, and their base still eats it up. I'm very curious how much of MAGA is on food stamps ... they don't tend to be the best and brightest, and the wealthy are only along for the ride for the tax cuts; they don't care about the political red meat and essentially cosplay as MAGA to claw buck a few billion more from taxpayers.