Americans brace for food stamps to run out: 'The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression'

[babylonsister]

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
Eric Berger
Fri 24 Oct 2025 14.46 EDT

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While Republicans have sought to blame Democrats for the potential loss in benefits that people who make little money rely on, those who work in the food-insecurity space say that is misleading because Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act already eliminated almost $187bn in funding for Snap through 2024, according to a congressional budget office estimate.

Should funding run out at the end of the month, “we will have the greatest hunger catastrophe in America since the Great Depression, and I don’t say that as hyperbole”, said Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America.

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The Department of Agriculture recently sent a letter to regional Snap directors warning them that funding for Snap will run out at the end of the month and directing them to hold payments “until further notice”.

More than 200 Democratic representatives have urged the USDA to use contingency funds to continue paying for Snap benefits.

“There are clear steps the administration can and must take immediately to ensure that millions of families across the country can put food on their table in November,” a letter from the lawmakers to the USDA states. “SNAP benefits reach those in need this November would be a gross dereliction of your responsibilities to the American people. We appreciate your consideration of these requests.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/government-shutdown-food-stamps-snap

[Lovie777]

1. Contingency plan allows payment at least for most of November................

shithole and comrades are blocking it....................

American people need to hear the truth.

[orangecrush]

2. I got their food stamps right here

"Believe in all the good things that money just can't buy
Then you won't get no belly ache from eatin' humble pie
I believe in rags to riches, your inheritance won't last
So take your Grey Poupon, my friend and shove it up your ass!"

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[bucolic_frolic]

3. Food banks are hurting too

I'm seeing appeals in the local Democratic email, and that food donations were collected at the NoKings rally a week ago.

Some food banks locally are affiliated with churches. It's not all county level and corporate donations and United Way.

[orangecrush]

4. Its that way here

The real question is, how do you get the 6 million or so who attended No Kings all to DC at one time.

[ampm]

5. This is Aryn Rand

They studied under this Russian writer, who ultimately used her government connections in her final days and leveraged her name to do so.

[obamanut2012]

8. Who is Aryn Rand?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. The name is actually Ayn Rand.

She wrote several books about the joys of no government, especially (if I remember correctly) the joys of no free health care.

With typical Republican/Conservative hypocrisy, she went with Medicare at the end of her life.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. She said a serial killer was the ideal man

"In 1928, just two years after Ayn Rand arrived in the U.S. from Soviet Russia and settled in Los Angeles, she scribbled diary notes in her brand-new language that formed a story she called The Little Street. Its protagonist, Danny Renahan, is modeled on a real-life Los Angeles murderer, 19-year-old William Hickman, who strangled and dismembered a girl in a kidnapping-for-ransom gone awry." https://time.com/3951166/ayn-rand-ideal-fountainhead/

So, I guess she would have been fine if Hickman had done the same thing to her?

This is the philosophy these fools follow.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. This is really bad

Hungry people will do anything to get food. This is what brought down French Kings and Queens.

When you take away food, you take away hope. Hopeless people are angry mean people. Hunger is what ushered in the New Deal, FDR and WWII.

It's not just the fact that people will go hungry as they do in dictatorships all over the world. It's that what they had, what little food they got, is going to be taken away from them. It's not as if these newly hungry people lived there whole life scrounging for food. It's that the food they once relied on is actively being pulled back to give tax cuts to the filthy-rich.

The filthy-rich oligarchs think this is fine. They think they can use these newly hungry people to work for pennies. They think it will give them cheap and practically free labor.

But......a lot of the hungry are smart, if not rich, people. They can see pedo Trump's $300 million ballroom being erected. They can see how the rich live while they starve or beg for food.

Who do you think they will blame when the filthy-rich take away the little food they had?

[BattleRow]

10. Revolutions are fought by those whose ribs are easily counted.

[leftstreet]

7. Trump giving us Circuses while the Bread runs out

[not fooled]

9. Hence (yet another reason for) the militarization of cities

red don can't wait to see soldiers firing on groups of angry, hungry poor people.

And the psycho "new reactionary" loons love the idea of "useless eaters" getting killed off.

[Raftergirl]

12. A hell of a lot of those hungry people will be MAGA.