US EditionShutdown Disrupts Food Aid for Millions
The Trump administration declined to use emergency funds to maintain SNAP benefits, impacting 42 million recipients amid budget talks aimed at pressuring Democrats.
- The Trump administration turned off SNAP payments over the weekend, leaving more than 42 million Americans without benefits, Chauncey DeVega, Salon writer, reported on November 4.
- Appropriations for SNAP administration expired at the end of October, ending funding, and the White House declined to use an existing emergency fund to pressure Democrats in budget talks.
- The program mainly serves children, the elderly, and the disabled, skewing toward single mothers, and SNAP recipients receive $187 per month on average.
- Judges may intervene because benefits won't be paid this month unless courts act, and litigation over the administration's discretion is expected while GiveDirectly raises funds to aid Americans affected by the benefits interruption.
- The White House frames the cut as leverage in budget talks, believing it will pressure Democrats to concede, while critics including Chauncey DeVega call it `necropolitics` and indifference to hunger.
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The food aid received by millions of Americans "will only be paid once the democrats put the government back on track".
In the United States, food aid for millions of people is to be cut because of the budget ban.
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news38.deBecause of the shutdown under Trump, around 42 million people in need in the US receive only reduced food aid.
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