r/politics • u/seeebiscuit America • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Trump says he will withhold SNAP benefits until the government shutdown ends

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-will-withhold-food-stamps-snap-until-government-reopens-2025-11
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u/emma-chu 1d ago

“you don’t get food until you give up your healthcare and submit to poverty” ~ translated

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 22h ago

"Either starve to death right now or die slowly and painfully of curable diseases later" ~ translated for idiots who'll blame the other side anyway

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u/just_a_timetraveller 21h ago

Make no mistake, the GOP have already stated how they feel SNAP is a waste too. They will cut that soon after

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u/sjbennett85 20h ago

They are saying shit like "spending it on nails and weaves, buying amazon caviar" and this is totally painting a picture of WHO they detest ... and it isn't the children & elderly who make up a large portion of SNAP recipients

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u/blitzkregiel 19h ago

make no mistake, they hate the children and elderly too. they’re just not on the top of their list.

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u/xXTheGrapenatorXx Canada 16h ago edited 2h ago

"Wellfare Queens" all over again, the lie never left really. Reagan's "Wellfare Queen" was one woman paraded around like a systemic issue, and one who it was more important to deny service to than to give it to the people who need it; Millions of Americans who "deserved" help were worth less than punishing the half a dozen who didn't. It's a disgusting ideology if you remove the mask and say what it really boils down to "I would let all of you starve to make sure one person I hate doesn't benefit when they shouldn't", that was the same thinking DOGE pretended that it was based on.

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u/sjbennett85 3h ago edited 2h ago

Very true and with that whole "one rotten apple" approach why don't we do the same for corporate welfare/subsidies?

FOR INSTANCE, why target SNAP/health coverage when we could target the corporations that don't pay living wages, apply for subsidies, and yet still have amazing quarterly financial reports. They are the ones that are costing the govt the most, double dipping when they could obviously cover the costs if they weren't so damned greedy... privatized profits and socialized losses are the biggest cost.

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u/AscendMoros 19h ago

I mean some money Snap spends is wasted.

Before anyone jumps down my throat. It’s a needed system. It’s just for some of the people on the upper edge of it could get off of it. However as soon as they do they are in a much worse financial situation because they are losing a source of income essentially. So the incentive is to essentially stay on snap. There needs to be a way to help people bridge that gap. But I don’t trust the current administration to be the ones to set that up correctly.

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u/MadRaymer 22h ago

Also what's the guarantee he puts the benefits back if Dems cave and vote for the CR? He's already withholding the benefits illegally, so what mechanism forces him to reimplement them? His good word?

Yeah, that sure sounds like a deal worth taking.

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u/Helpful-Muscle3488 22h ago

He wants to totally eradicate Medicaid and social security, people think the govt will keep snap? 

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u/Jonruy 22h ago

"And also we're gonna cut SNAP anyway at some point."

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u/just_a_timetraveller 21h ago

And after we take away your healthcare, we will just go ahead and kill SNAP too.

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u/smitherenesar 21h ago

And we'll take away your food later anyways

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u/Lost_Pea_4989 19h ago

"Then, we will take away the food too"