US EditionDems bash administration for withholding SNAP funds: ‘Disgusting dereliction of duty’
The Trump administration will not use a $5 billion contingency fund to prevent SNAP benefits pause starting Nov 1, affecting 40 million Americans and increasing food bank demand.
- The Trump administration announced Friday it will not use a contingency fund, halting November 01 SNAP benefits amid the federal government shutdown.
- The administration linked the pause to the federal government shutdown and said states that temporarily cover benefits next month will not be reimbursed, with USDA stating, `Bottom line, the well has run dry,`.
- SNAP supports 40 million Americans, with debit EBT cards normally loaded each month, while food pantries provide about 1 meal for every 9 SNAP meals, Feeding America reported.
- Food banks nationwide are bracing for sharply increased demand as some distributors and warehouse managers report startlingly low food supplies amid the SNAP pause.
- Charities warn cuts and rising demand will deepen hunger after program cuts earlier this year ended more than 1 billion in aid, and volunteer Beth White says SNAP interruptions worsen conditions; Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said, `When you take SNAP away, the implications are cataclysmic.
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Dems bash administration for withholding SNAP funds: ‘Disgusting dereliction of duty’
Top House Democrats tore into the Trump administration on Friday night for withholding available food aid for millions of low-income Americans, saying the decision is both callous and illegal. “It is a disgusting dereliction of duty that the Trump administration would knowingly rip food out of the mouths of 42 million children, seniors and veterans,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. The U.S. Department of Agr…
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