REDUCED FOOD ASSISTANCE TOUCHES MILLIONS
4.3 million people lost food stamps (SNAP) due to stricter rules and paperwork issues. Find out who is affected and what happens next.
#SNAPcuts, #FoodStamps, #Poverty, #EligibilityRules, #FoodAssistance
https://newsletter.tf/millions-lose-food-stamps-due-to-new-rules/
Nearly 4.3 million people have stopped receiving food stamps. This is a big drop in the SNAP program.
#SNAPcuts, #FoodStamps, #Poverty, #EligibilityRules, #FoodAssistance
https://newsletter.tf/millions-lose-food-stamps-due-to-new-rules/
Propublica: “The Alarm Bell”: #Arizona’s Drop in #SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.
by Nicole Santa Cruz
April 8, 2026
"More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July — the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin — as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
"The drop represents nearly 47% of the state’s participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.
"On Wednesday, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released data through February showing that the reduction in Arizona has far outstripped other states. After Arizona, the largest loss of participants was in Florida, where less than 16% of recipients lost benefits since July, according to the center’s analysis.
"Arizona officials attribute the plunging caseload to swift implementation of policy changes forced by the bill, including new work requirements.
"But interviews suggest that Arizona’s efforts to comply, combined with cuts to the agency that runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have contributed to the decline — making it more difficult to apply and causing people who are eligible to be denied. The state’s drop has exceeded previous projections.
" 'Arizona is just the alarm bell,' said Joseph Palomino, executive director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, a nonpartisan advocacy organization. “This is likely going to happen in every state.' "
Read more:
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-snap-benefits-trump-legislation
#USPol #HungerGames #TheHungerGamesAreNow #SNAPCuts #BigUglyBill #BigUglyPresident #WorkCamps #Starvation #Authoritarianism
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply and caused nearly half of recipients to lose benefits.
So the administration is slashing SNAP and food aid to blue states to trigger food protests that they will label "riots". They'll claim that the governors and mayors in those blue states are either unable to maintain law and order, or are outright in insurrection. Then they'll send troops in.
I presume they will be terrorizing citizens, or trying to. Trump is pretty much panting at the bit to have American troops kill American citizens. But what comes next? Is the goal to establish an absolute reign of terror in the blue states, and thereby control the elections? That's the only thing that I can think of that would make any sense, even from their warped point of view!
What do you think?
So, yeah... From November 2024... This is what they wanted all along! Curse the Democrats who voted to end the #Shutdown!
MAGA allies eye drastic Medicaid and food stamp cuts to fund tax breaks for rich: report
Matthew Chapman
November 18, 2024
"Donald Trump and his allies are floating the idea of major cuts to Medicaid and the food stamp program in order to offset some of the budget deficits created by their desired new round of tax cuts for the rich, reported The Washington Post on Monday."
Read more:
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-health-food-cuts/
#USPol #Shutdown #ShutdownBill #TaxBreaksForTheRich #GOP #MAGA #MedicaidCuts #FoodStampCuts #SNAPCuts
Donald Trump and his allies are floating the idea of major cuts to Medicaid and the food stamp program in order to offset some of the budget deficits created by their desired new round of tax cuts for the rich, reported The Washington Post on Monday.The new tax cuts are a huge priority for Trump and...
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown.
The Agriculture Department issued the directive in a late-night Saturday memo, viewed later by The New York Times. That guidance threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders.
#classwar #MAGA #fascism #USpol #cruelty #sadism #hunger #SNAP #SnapCuts #poverty #trump
The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
By Alain Stephens
"For the first time in modern American history, its leader is intentionally starving his own people."
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/07/government-shutdown-snap-trump-hunger/
#StarveThePoor #LetThemEatCake
#GuillotineTime #SNAPCuts #TrumpSucks #EatTheRich #HungerGames #USPol
WTF! #SupremeCourt issues order to block full #SNAP payments
By David A. Lieb
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b
#LetThemEatCake #GuillotineTime #SNAPCuts #SCOTUSIsCompromised #TrumpSucks #EatTheRich
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked an appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund. After the appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause.
"10 things to know about the SNAP crisis and what’s being done to help"
Note for Oregonians: The Oregon Dept of Human Services reported on its website that in spite of the government shutdown 100% of the November SNAP benefits have been loaded onto EBT cards as of today, Nov. 7.
Judge orders #Trump administration to deliver full #SNAP benefits to states by Friday
The administration had said it would distribute partial payments in November, but that the process could take weeks.
by By Aria Bendix, November 6, 2025
"But [Judge] McConnell said the Trump administration 'did nothing to ensure' that SNAP benefits would be delivered this week. He ordered the administration to use the funding for child nutrition programs, known as #Section32 funding, in addition to the contingency funds to make sure payments are delivered in full.
" 'The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur,' McConnell said. 'Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s history. This is a problem that could have and should have been avoided.' "
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