SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries
apnews.com
Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Technically funding was cut off, but they do have emergency funding that is meant to be used in cases like this but fascists refuse to do so.

    The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.”

    https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snaps-contingency-reserve-is-available-for-regular-snap-benefits-as-usda

    • ignirtoq@feddit.onlineEnglish
      5·
      22 hours ago

      I didn’t say benefits were not cut off. I’m challenging the assertion that the mere fact that the government is shutdown is the cause of funding being cut off, like the phrase I quoted implicitly assets. The shutdown alone is not the reason funds for SNAP were cut off, and my proof of my assertion is the fact that funding has never been cut off in previous shutdowns.

      This means someone must have chosen to execute this shutdown differently on purpose. Republicans are in charge of all branches of government, so they are the most likely culprit.