Thoughts on USA states planning to cut off food aid benefits?

[Cubus]

Twenty-five states said that they are issuing notices informing participants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative — that they won’t receive checks next month. Those states include California, Arkansas, Hawaii, Indiana, Mississippi and New Jersey. Others didn’t respond to requests for comment in time for publication.

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service recently told every state that they’d need to hold off on distributing benefits until further notice, according to multiple state agencies.

Nutrition programs like SNAP and another one serving low-income mothers and infants have been caught in the crossfire of lawmakers’ spending negotiations, with the shutdown now in its fourth week. States are scrambling to maintain the programs using money from their own coffers and emergency funding from the Trump administration, but that pot is rapidly decreasing.

Under SNAP, which serves more than 42 million people, families receive an average of $187.20 per month to pay for groceries. The pause in benefits would kick in just before the Thanksgiving holiday and add further strain on food banks and pantries during a typically busy season.

Even if lawmakers clinch a funding deal before the end of October, anti-hunger advocates and states expect a delay between the government reopening and state administrators being able to issue November’s benefits, after weeks of holding up the typical process. For example, Kansas’ Department for Children and Families told POLITICO that it would take at least three days to fully reboot the program.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/states-snap-food-aid-benefits-government-shutdown-00619117

[boundless]

I think if you live in a Democrat city, your grocery store is going to go out of business. Grocery stores stock enough food for 3 days and depend on just in time delivery. Democrats already plan to riot and mob loot grocery stores. So you can expect that those store will be closing up and you will no longer have a source for food. You city has 3 days food once the rioting begins and then you will live in a food desert and go hungry. Then the National Guard will move in and lock down your city. You have about a week to move. Godspeed.

[boundless]

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[boundless]

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[exitseven]

Most of these states have democrat senators. Each state has two senators. It would only take 2 1/2 states to open the government.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Cubus]

You're welcome

[OlderAndWiser]

Democrats, stand up and take a bow!

[Pterodon]

All I can say is shame on the democrats for not voting to keep the government open. Every republican voted to keep it running

[seeyounexttuesday]

That's typical democrat behavior. Starve the poor but keep collecting their salaries.