Page 7 | What’s happening with food stamps in the US?

OverDram · 2025-10-30T14:49:56+00:00

I’m seeing it all over social media. Has Trump stopped the equivalent of benefits? Can someone explain please?

Starconundrum · 31/10/2025 03:28

TooBigForMyBoots · 31/10/2025 03:24

Me too.

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Passion for fairness

Starconundrum · 31/10/2025 03:30

askmenow · 31/10/2025 03:23

No, it’s not, look at the bloody stats!
Its just that MSM , a tool of the Government since Covid, don’t report accurately.

Check out Ground News for accurate reporting stats and bias.

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Rubbish

WhatIsTheCharge · 31/10/2025 03:43

Starconundrum · 31/10/2025 03:18

This is also untrue.

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I was born in the UK.
Lived there my entire life until I married an American.
We are returning to the U.K. in the very near future…..and I’m not remotely concerned about all the things the scaremongering media (and reform voters 🫠) are bleating on about.
Its giving “Portland is a war zone” vibes when in reality the combatants in Portland are people in inflatable frog costumes 🫠😂

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 03:44

deararethymountains · 31/10/2025 01:21

Democrats have voted 13 times to shut down governent. Republicans need 60 votes to open it again but only have 54. They keep voting to re-open.

Democrats have openly admitted that people not getting food stamps is because they have shut down government. They have said they are going to keep doing it anyway.

That is, entirely and in a nutshell, exactly what has happened.

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Funny enough you’re missing out quite a large piece of information now aren’t you? Why are the Dems holding out, do you think? What is it that they’re trying to prevent the Republicans from doing? And by the way, why aren’t the Republicans using the congressional funds that are reserved just for this purpose? I mean, they wouldn’t be using hungry people as political pawns would they? Noooo… Trump wouldn’t do that would he?

TooBigForMyBoots · 31/10/2025 03:48

I'm just hoping the GOP see sense, go back to work tomorrow and do right by Americans.🤞

WhatIsTheCharge · 31/10/2025 03:50

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 03:44

Funny enough you’re missing out quite a large piece of information now aren’t you? Why are the Dems holding out, do you think? What is it that they’re trying to prevent the Republicans from doing? And by the way, why aren’t the Republicans using the congressional funds that are reserved just for this purpose? I mean, they wouldn’t be using hungry people as political pawns would they? Noooo… Trump wouldn’t do that would he?

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Also very quiet on the frivolous spending too…..

$150 million to refurbish the bribe ahem plane from Qatar.
$230 on the gilded ballroom.
$3.4 million on travel and security for trips to Mar-a-lago.
$35-40million spent on JD Vance’s billion holidays he’s been on since January (he’s been on holiday 8 times in 7 months)

So there’s money available for all that…..but that’s all fine 🫠🫠🫠

I guess the only difference between Marie Antoinette and Donny Dilweed is that she could blend her make up better

Starconundrum · 31/10/2025 04:29

WhatIsTheCharge · 31/10/2025 03:43

I was born in the UK.
Lived there my entire life until I married an American.
We are returning to the U.K. in the very near future…..and I’m not remotely concerned about all the things the scaremongering media (and reform voters 🫠) are bleating on about.
Its giving “Portland is a war zone” vibes when in reality the combatants in Portland are people in inflatable frog costumes 🫠😂

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That's what I want a thread about.

The frog costumes.

I'm so bored of racists pretending stuff and I feel obligated to defend, because our media is just as shit as that in the states.

Just bloody let people be people and care that they're ok. It's not hard is it?!

Cnon · 31/10/2025 05:43

OverDram · 30/10/2025 18:27

Is this something that could happen every single year?

Hi from the USA!

The answer is yes!

deararethymountains · 31/10/2025 05:47

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 03:44

Funny enough you’re missing out quite a large piece of information now aren’t you? Why are the Dems holding out, do you think? What is it that they’re trying to prevent the Republicans from doing? And by the way, why aren’t the Republicans using the congressional funds that are reserved just for this purpose? I mean, they wouldn’t be using hungry people as political pawns would they? Noooo… Trump wouldn’t do that would he?

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Funny enough I simply stated the facts which are easily available and clearly distress you. Oh well, reality doesn't care how you feel :)

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 05:50

deararethymountains · 31/10/2025 05:47

Funny enough I simply stated the facts which are easily available and clearly distress you. Oh well, reality doesn't care how you feel :)

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No. Not facts. That sounds like a lot of people I’ve heard around here recently, the ones that don’t care unless it happens to them. I’m actually quite a nice person so I hope you won’t be one of the ones going hungry. Maybe you’re not even in the US? I’m worried about the children at my kid’s school. I’m worried about the teachers too who try to feed the hungry ones already when they struggle themselves.

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 05:58

deararethymountains · 31/10/2025 01:31

Nah. The Dems have openly stated that the poor people will just have to go without. Even the far leftist Washington Post admits that the Dems have said poor people will just have to starve.

"The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies," the Post editorial said.

"Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage. If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry."

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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?

Telemichus · 31/10/2025 06:15

WhatIsTheCharge · 30/10/2025 19:41

It’s such a fucking shit position to be in.

Everything in me is wanting to get involved and help where I can….but I’m also very much aware of our own situation and that my DH may not get paid either this pay cycle or the November 15th pay cycle.
We already chuck a few things in our local supermarket’s donation bin for the food bank every time we go shopping and will continue to do that.
We have a Trunk or Treat event at my kids’ school tonight. It’s a Title 1 school, so a huge proportion of students come from low income households or meet the Title 1 criteria for homelessness. There’s a volunteer meeting after the event so those of us who want to help and are able to help can get together and come up with some school initiatives to help take the edge off where we can for our students and their families who will be struggling as of Saturday.

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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?

PermanentTemporary · 31/10/2025 06:15

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.

Iwanttoliveinagardencentre · 31/10/2025 06:16

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.

Junenights · 31/10/2025 06:18

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?

PermanentTemporary · 31/10/2025 06:23

@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.

ThejoyofNC · 31/10/2025 06:29

OverDram · 31/10/2025 00:00

So ban abortion but then take away the means to raise the children.

I’m shocked at the US Christians supporting this. In the UK most food banks are ran out of churches. Don’t they have the same Christian spirt in the states

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

GummyBearette · 31/10/2025 06:39

Iwanttoliveinagardencentre · 31/10/2025 06:16

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.

All of this.

Ilovecakey · 31/10/2025 07:53

WhatIsTheCharge · 30/10/2025 17:42

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 🫠

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Omg why is formula so expensive over there?!

EasternStandard · 31/10/2025 08:17

@WhatIsTheChargewhat do you think will happen? Who will fold

GoldThumb · 31/10/2025 08:22

deararethymountains · 31/10/2025 01:21

Democrats have voted 13 times to shut down governent. Republicans need 60 votes to open it again but only have 54. They keep voting to re-open.

Democrats have openly admitted that people not getting food stamps is because they have shut down government. They have said they are going to keep doing it anyway.

That is, entirely and in a nutshell, exactly what has happened.

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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?

Bobiverse · 31/10/2025 08:33

GoldThumb · 31/10/2025 08:22

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?

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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.

GoldThumb · 31/10/2025 08:36

Bobiverse · 31/10/2025 08:33

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.

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So it’s basically a stand off?

EasternStandard · 31/10/2025 08:54

GoldThumb · 31/10/2025 08:36

So it’s basically a stand off?

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Yep.

sashh · 31/10/2025 09:16

@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.