What’s happening with food stamps in the US?

Is there not a point where it has to end?

The internet isn’t hand picked for you.

im very concerned by this because Farage is literally trump in a different suit.

It does happen. Not every year, but often enough.
Usually it only lasts a week or so, budget gets passed and everything goes back to normal.

This time it’s fucking insane.

Stop being so unpleasant. You don’t have to read this thread and you didn’t have to comment? Move on to a different thread you miser.

It wouldn't be in a functioning democracy.

The first shutdown to occur was in the 1970s and most of them have been extremely short - often just a day or two.

If you exclude Trump, the total length of all shutdowns combined is about 75 days (the longest was 21 days under Clinton).

Trump is the current record holder at 35 days (that occurred during his first term) and this one could well last even longer. He doesn't really have much interest in...you know...governing.

And yeah, personally I doubt the US is still a democracy, but the big litmus tests are yet to come.

they are. but not for this length of time and with little contingency.

I'm sorry for your health issues, but if you don't want to be troubled (you don't actually sound that troubled), you can move on to one of the other 100 posts.

Some states, like California and Minnesota, are expanding their food assistance programs.

The military also don’t have guaranteed pay due to the shutdown. I read a stat (that I can’t remember the details of) about how many military families also rely on food welfare and it was a reasonably chunk, so they’re losing that. And the treasury secretary has said that past 15th Nov, there won’t be money to pay the military.

Oh and to sweeten the deal even more……the magic money that appeared for military pay checks on October 15th will be ok to cover November 1st…..but come November 15th there will be nothing else to re-allocate.

Sooooo best find myself a street corner in the dodgy end of town to make sure we can pay our rent in December 🫠👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2025-news-articles/health-care-and-earned-benefits/what-the-shutdown-means-for-troops,-retirees,-veterans,-and-families/

And when hungry people start stealing and protesting, he will send the military in.

You can see where this is going, every step.

It’s an insane system for a country that is a developed democracy.

There’s also plenty of U.K. folk living here who are affected by it 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

It’s all over my local news that my local airport has a food pantry set up for TSA employees to use 😔
Still going to work, not getting paid and having to take donations of food, nappies and formula because otherwise they aren’t going to have it.
It’s fucking disgusting.
(But there’s money there to build The Orange Turd’s fucking golden ballroom?! 🫠🫠👍🏻👍🏻)

Surely it doesn’t affect uk folk, I’ve a daily battle with Parkinson’s, why trouble me with this?

Nobody got paid - not even active duty military. Then that money got magicked up, so active duty got paid, but civilian contractors didn’t.
The medical centre in our USAF base is in shambles. The only services available at the moment are “essential services” - so emergency room & labour and delivery basically. The pharmacy is rationing medications because there’s no budget for them to be able to restock. I’m on my last pack of mine and can’t order my repeat prescription because they haven’t got it. The way health insurance works for military folk here, is you are either on Tricare Prime or Tricare Select. Prime is free for active duty servicemen and their dependants, but you have to be seen on base. Select has an out-of-pocket fee but you get to choose where you get care as long as the doctor you choose is in Network, but obviously most of those doctors now don’t want to see Tricare patients because when they go to make the insurance claim to Tricare to get paid, theirs no budget allocated to pay for it…..so we are fucked unless we can pay out-of-pocket to see a random doctor off base (which most of us can’t especially right now!)

Fucking hell. I thought £12 a tin was bad. That's an insane amount for formula. 😟

I know someone who works in a school on the USAF base over here. She hasn't been paid and because she lives in the UK can't get a second job. It ridiculous.

My son lives out there and has for 15 years. Apparently these shutdowns, over budgets, are a regular thing.

Same. We have savings, but a lot of people are not so lucky. We are stationed overseas though so I think our WIC is protected for a little longer. Commissary's only have funds for 60 days so they will be closing soon-ish, if the government doesn't reopen.

Of course they did.

And all the while, my local mom groups on social media are full of mothers panicking that they are going to run out of baby formula and not be able to replace it….because formula costs $40-$60 a can and they won’t be getting their SNAP in November 🫠

I find it crazy that there's a system where people either have to stop working and get no income, or have to work with no pay, and that critical things like the food stamps stop. And that it's allowed to repeatedly happen. It's mind-boggling to me that you'd have a system that can treat people like that. And to have people like air traffic controllers have to take on additional jobs in addition to working air traffic unpaid is a major safety issue.