What’s happening with food stamps in the US?

Because capitalism 🤷🏻‍♀️🫠

The formula companies know that there’s no protected maternity leave policies for mothers. So most women don’t have adequate time to establish breastfeeding or maintain a supply….so most mothers here will end up using formula at some point.
The formula companies capitalise hugely on that.

School meals are state level budgeting.

Some states have a free school meals program for all students regardless of income.

In other states it depends on the school/school district - my children’s school district kept their free school meals initiative this year, so all students regardless of income get at least lunch at school. My children’s school have maintained breakfast and lunch for all students.

If you had any idea of the resources (time, money, education level, effort) it takes to get SEN support for a child in the UK, you would not be spreading these untruths. Unless you are a malicious provocateur that is.

I have lived it, I continue to live it, and my child is not in receipt of any benefits - unless you consider his state school education a benefit.

It might be worth you sourcing your news and information from fact checked sources rather than from Youtube.

I am aware and the FFS is completely unwarranted and frankly rude. Yes the length of time is unusual but the rest isn’t. I’m no fan of Trump and FULLY aware of the political situation. But the budget not being approved isn’t unusual.

I think part of the issue is media and I’m sure it’s no different in the US- take the example of the story re Rachel Reeves- a non story if ever I saw one- yep her agents cocked up but it’s not exactly big league stuff - whereas the story about Farages partner buying a house with money from the back of the sofa, the Tory’s endless stories of millions written off or hidden on business things, huge amounts given to knock offs in ‘contracts’ ( hello Boris Johnson) -savid javids business antics - Sunaks wife’s involvement with companies taking large amounts from the Covid loan scheme and then liquidating them quite quickly - all get brushed under the carpet by the mail , express , even BBc etc - anything involving labour - they bang on about it for weeks - thing is many ( not all but I would say vast majority) of over 70s in particular aren’t on blue sky, Twitter, reading private eye etc - they do get their info from Mail, express, BBC news. So are often oblivious to what’s not reported in those places. Take as an example the very positive rulings this week regards renters- very little reported on it by any of these sources. In fact anything Labour do that is positive- simply not reported or done on a ‘hide it away’ kind of way - these sources have gone from being ‘news reporters ‘ to agenda setters designed to appeal to a particular demographic - and to show how cynical it all is the owners of the Express also own the Daily Mirror - who of course are reporting the opposite agenda- I’m sure the US is very similar if not worse. To be frank if Donny’s tariffs are so mega mega successful, why does he need to be tinkering with stopping/cutting healthcare etc - the US likes to give off the mega successful image to the world but you only have to go there ( and I’ve been a lot) to say a lot of it is a run down behind the times dump mass illusion fuelled by huge debt - personal and state and ludicrous numbers of people on public service jobs propping up the economy and large parts of the population doing nicely going round screwing each other for every penny, be that medical, dental, an awful lot of things involving ‘services ‘ - as an example we needed to get a guy out to do some filming of an interview, nothing negative skilled, one man and his video camera kind of thing - 1850 dollars for a mornings work , maybe 2 hours tidying up on editing and a 20 minute drive - could have done this in UK for £500 quite easily- there are lots of things I like in the US and if you are doing well it can be a good lifestyle but this is very very spotty indeed and for massive amounts of people it’s a really hard slog just getting by - which is why you see bent double 80 year old veterans working parking lots etc - when people think we need to look towards the US I wish so many who have never been or maybe a couple of Florida holidays understood the actual full picture

This is an example of what the Democrats are fighting against. 700% increases in the cost of health insurance.

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/09/23/alaskans-face-massive-health-insurance-cost-increases-unless-congress-acts-before-year-end/

If you believe that the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is 'far leftist', you're beyond rational conversation.

You do know it was the previous conservative government, and specifically the home office under Theresa May, that changed the guidelines on enforcement of shop lifting right? You might not think the current government is doing a good job, and they re fucking up a lot of stuff, but you can’t blame them for that or everything stemming from the legacy of the last lot- the economic fallout from truss springs to mind ( hello higher mortgage rates) & the blond moron’s corruption spring easily to mind.

Interesting…

The Republicans are trying to avoid the swearing in of a democratic congresswoman who will have the deciding vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Timothy Mellon donated $130m 2 days ago to pay troops to keep shutdown going - his dad’s name is all over the Epstein flight logs (allegedly). There are lots of people doing their best to keep those files sealed.

@WhatIsTheCharge which country are you in?

If you are in the UK you can get a small amount of prescription medicines from a pharmacy. The brand names will be different and obviously you would have to pay.

What I can't understand is all the vitriol on X saying people shouldn't be able to buy certain things eg cookies or that they should be given a box of basic food stuff.

Yep.

So it’s basically a stand off?

Republicabs are voting to go ahead with the budget they want, removing health care subsidies and other things. Of course they’re voting for that.
The democrats won’t agree to that budget. Of course their voting won’t.

if republicans really wanted to open back up then they’d go back to the budget and findnve healthcare subsidies. Why should the democrats back down when, in the long run, what they want is worth the short term pain as it’s better for the country overall.

This is what I thought, the republicans keep trying to open it, and the democrats keep voting to keep it closed.

Not sure how that’s trumps fault, unless I’m missing something?

@WhatIsTheChargewhat do you think will happen? Who will fold

Omg why is formula so expensive over there?!

All of this.

Christians happen to be some of the most charitable people so I don't know why you're blaming them

@Junenights I think the uk equivalent would be the Commons voting down the Budget bill, which by convention I don’t think happens, and it going to the Lords and them blocking it as well. I know that it is a constitutional convention that the Lords as an unelected chamber don’t block the elected Government’s budget, though they could debate and ask for changes. The 1909 constitutional crisis was when the Lords refused to pass Lloyd George’s budget and LG got the King to threaten to create a whole lot of new Lords to force it through. This was so shocking that the convention emerged that the Lords don’t do that any more.

Could someone explain what the uk equivalent would be of this US crisis? Is it like what would happen over here if everyone's universal credit payments stopped? because of labour not being able to agree on something related to budget?

Trump is prepared to let his own people starve to blackmail the democrats into agreeing whatever he wants.

He is betting that they care more about hungry citizens than he does so they will back down first.

He is quite right because just about anybody cares more about suffering of others than trump.

Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone except himself so there is no humanity or compassion there to appeal to.

Poor people are his political pawns. He sold them a lie to get elected and is now using them again to force his will.

It will, of course, be spun by trump's shitehouse that this is all his opponents doing and presumably the maga crowd will swallow this, some of them instead of basic food.

But you can't fool all of the people all of the time so perhaps some will start to see the gap between trump "truth" and the reality of their daily lives.

An awful lot of this seems to be happening just to prevent Trump from becoming a lame duck president with only a couple of years left and therefore not interesting. Hence all the posturing about a third term. I’m sure he would do it if he could but the main reason is just to keep the attention and money flowing his way so he can flog more memecoin in return for contracts and pardons.

Who is likely to be the next GOP candidate? Will it be Vance? I’ve already said I think Erica Kirk will be his VP pick.

Sorry I haven’t read the whole thread but I was wondering yesterday if school meals are affected? Presumably teachers aren’t getting paid? Or is that paid at a state level?
are school support staff and then if children would usually get free school lunch will that also go?

Wow, I’m always amazed at people that believe Trump. What’s your excuse for them not using the congressional funding to stop people from going hungry then?