What’s happening with food stamps in the US?

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

Can someone explain please?

Agree.

But remember that a lot of the childcare and public transportation sectors are also dependent on federal subsidies. Many phblic transport systems will grind to a halt or cut services when the money stops, and daycare facilities that accept or rely on federal subsidies under various programs will be forced to close, with families rendered unable to work, or more likely, mothers unable to work (a la Project 25).

Parkinson's doesn't affect me, why are you troubling us with it?

Do you see how that sounds?

Huh? What's been sorted?

@coffeeccrisp what has been sorted?

the food stamp issue? It has not. Just because two federal judges said the food stamps should be paid does not mean people have food stamps. We have to wait and see in the next couple of weeks if that money appears.

Even if Trump issued an executive order to pay the money, there would be logistical barriers to getting the money distributed quickly off schedule, especially with so much of the federal workforce furloughed.

in the meantime, people still have nothing and food banks are overwhelmed.

There are some crazy beliefs around. Prosperity gospel preaches that wealth is God's will, the implication of which being that poor people must be bad. In the US these days Jesus would be denounced as a "commie" for his dangerous teachings like loving thy neighbour.

If what you say is true, why were the files not released under Biden Harris?

Really? It's seems the republicans are pro Christ and the Democrats are very anti Christ, no?
And from what I've seen, a lot of churches are running food drives.

Because plenty of Dems will be in those files as well 👀👀👀

Not everyone in there will have directly abused children…..but follow the money and there will be endless financial crimes on both sides of the political spectrum tying back to the abuse, either directly or indirectly.

I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that one of the things Trump campaigned hard on, was the promise of full release of the Epstein files.

Now he says they don't exist? WTF?🤯

Was he lying to people about this during his campaign or is he lying now?

I don’t have Parkinson’s…why are you troubling me with this?

Say what now?

A synonym for anti-Christ is Prince of Lies @Poetnojo.

Because he is insane and cruel. He has just thrown a lavish party with underage “dancers”, while there are people going hungry in the country he is supposed to serve.

No

Hard to imagine anything more tone deaf than that party

You do know that that video was AI generated, right? Even Fox News is admitting it was AI.

You are free to have what I consider repellent views, but please check the sources that are foundational in forming them.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/snap-beneficiaries-threaten-ransack-stores-over-government-shutdown

The majority of Christian Church goers in the US are republicans.

Then why do republicans outnumber Democrats in Christian church attendance?

As a Brit who’d never experienced the very American brand of Christianity until I came here: From my observations, church-going is more of a cultural expectation than anything in certain areas of the US. The church is the community hub, not just a place of worship. If you’re the one family who don’t show up in a Wednesday evening and a Sunday morning, you’re also not welcome anywhere else within the community. Generally speaking, the further south you go, the higher the numbers of church attendees.
Which directly correlates to the political map: the further south you go, the more red the maps turn.

Many Christian Republicans are followers of the prosperity gospel which differs from what many people in the UK would recognise as Christian teaching. People like Joel Osteen for example who preaches that “it’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty” and that “you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself.” In other words if you're poor then it's your own fault.
Why would you give to poor people? Live a Christian life and the wealth will come to you.

The Joel Olsteen who’s church resembles a Premier League stadium 🫠🫠😂

WILD to me as an outsider looking in.

Trump is basically black mailing the government to do what he wants regardless, or he will start starving his own population. What a nice guy.

Trump says there are no files, nothing to see here, but then he was very friendly with Epstein.

Americans are much more Christian, ie, church goers, than people in the UK, if you don't go to church you don't have social standing in many places. Whether a fraction of them would actually pass as Christians in the life they live is a different matter. Not sure there is much difference between the political parties in that respect.

They loudly proclaim their supposed Christianity but stop short of actually following anything written in the Bible:

When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt

Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.

Rather a contrast to the views of the 'Christian Right' who hate immigrants and the poor.

Look at Trump, he's practically a personification of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth