Summary
House Republicans are considering a 20% cut to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, impacting over 22 million households, as part of a $5 trillion deficit reduction plan.
The proposed changes to SNAP would save $247 billion over a decade by rolling back a Biden-era increase tied to the USDA’s “thrifty food plan.”
Critics argue the cuts could harm vulnerable populations and reduce demand for food production, while Republicans view the changes as a way to curb spending and encourage employment.
Because starving the poor has historically always worked out for the wealthy…
Right, because THAT’S where the untold billions of dollars are going. Not the defense and weapons spending
Well, we also have billionaires in this country, when that should not even be a thing. It’s time to Make America Great Again, and tax these fuckers at 92%. Like the 1950s.
…and I’m sure all the people that suffer from this will be blaming the motherfucking DEMOCRATS if/when this comes to pass.
If you starve to death because you voted for Trump, it’s your own damn fault
Does anyone even believe in deficits anymore? Like even the rubiest of rubes have been watching trillions of dollars worth of weapons flow out with no debate whatsoever.
Great idea. Take away from those that have nothing, should work out just fine.
The world is 9 meals away from anarchy
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They don’t give a shit about harming anyone.
They do give a shit. It’s their entire goal.
People on snap barely get anything as it is. What a shitty thing to do.
This is short sighted.
Hungry folks’ anger knows no limits. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
That’s where the part of declaring martial law on day 1 comes into play.
I mean, this is from the people who want to gut the benefits of individuals they trained to be killers.
And the rich are really tasty.
Empty calories though
since when do they give a fuck about the deficit?
oh, right. it’s their battle cry when they’re trying to hurt (the ‘right’) people by cutting essential services.
then they pat themselves on the back as they cut taxes for the wealthy by far more than was ‘saved’.
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.
reduce demand for food production
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There’s another name for that.
Well, prices are so high because too many people are demanding food. Let some starve to death, boom, less demand and lower prices. Get two birds stoned at once. The second bird being MAGA reveling in other people’s suffering.
Republicans considering cutting SNAP benefits as part of
deficit reduction planhurting the poorsWait until they find out the SNAP program (aka food stamps) is run by the Department of Agriculture because it’s about increasing demand for agricultural products, not helping the poor. For comparison, TANF (aka welfare) is under the Department of Health and Human Services.
It’s going to be a crazy administration as they randomly wail, fight with each other, piss off their donors.
SNAP pays out almost nothing already. You can’t eat on $292 per month, especially if you’re poor enough that you actually qualify for SNAP.
Is that amount for a family, cause I can definitely eat on $292 a month in a very expensive city. I’d need to make adjustments, but it’d easily be doable.
It’s for a household of 1, in Milwaukee. I could do it here if I cooked every meal and ate meat at most twice a week.
A person poor enough to qualify for this probably doesn’t have time to shop properly and cook for every meal, and probably doesn’t have a full kitchen.
Ya, it’d be a lot of vegetarian meals. If you can get to something like a Sams Club or Costco (although that has it’s own cost) you could get things like eggs, rice, oats, and even some spices over a few months to get you going, really cheap compared to other places.
Even being able to get something like a bulk frozen blueberries to be your fruit for the month that you can put in the oatmeal for example would go a long way, but is probably too pricey if you’re buying it in small quantities.
Trying to do that at an expensive grocery store and no access to cheaper bulk pricing would make that less comfortable.
I have a Costco membership. I don’t buy things like this or frozen vegetables there because they cost more per unit than they do at Kroger (let alone Lidl or Aldi).
Really? That’s interesting, even rice and oats?
Edit: where I’m at for spices, you can get 3-4x the amount at Costco vs the grocery store, but on a budget like this you’d probably only get 1 a month while you built up the kitchen. I’ll check rice again next time I’m out but I swear it’s cheaper as well. Haven’t bought oats in awhile, but used to have them for breakfast daily (the basic quaker oats kind, not the expensive flavored sachets)
Edit: Also I’m annoyed that you can’t see Costco warehouse food prices online. You get the online/delivery prices which are raised making price shopping more difficult.
If you want bulk spices hit up an international store. Might be slightly leaded, but they’re dirt cheap and sold by the pound
Uhhhh minus the lead you almost had me interested to try it out.
Regular grocery store prices for spices can be stupid at times.
Costco online is run completely separately.
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Ah yes this is what all the invading Greenland and annexing Canada rhetoric was hiding.
That and things like the tariffs. Just wait until people get a load of that.
