The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1 as the government shutdown drags on.
I’m basing this reply on the assumption that you do not know why the government shutdown is happening.
If the US Congress cannot pass a budget, the TLDR is basically that the government shuts down and many government workers end up working without getting paid, and many less fortunate and underprivileged citizens will lose access to the SNAP benefits and other various social safety nets that provides them with the basic necessities to survive.
One of the main reasons the budget bill is not passing is because the Trump administration and the Republicans want to strip the federal subsidies tied to the ACA (affordable care act). If the Democrats cave and help pass the bill, it will increase health insurance costs by an order of magnitude for most people in this country, and for about 40 million people, make health insurance completely unaffordable. So Trump directly said that those same 40 million people will face malnutrition or starve, because he wants to take those subsidies and put them in a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy. The same ultra-wealthy people that couldn’t spend the fortunes they currently possess over the next thousand years, even if they tried.
And they’re willing to let people starve and die, so that they can have more.
Edit to add: by “ultra-wealthy”, there are about 300-500 families in the entire country. So they would benefit, while 40 million people will starve.
I’m basing this reply on the assumption that you do not know why the government shutdown is happening.
If the US Congress cannot pass a budget, the TLDR is basically that the government shuts down and many government workers end up working without getting paid, and many less fortunate and underprivileged citizens will lose access to the SNAP benefits and other various social safety nets that provides them with the basic necessities to survive.
One of the main reasons the budget bill is not passing is because the Trump administration and the Republicans want to strip the federal subsidies tied to the ACA (affordable care act). If the Democrats cave and help pass the bill, it will increase health insurance costs by an order of magnitude for most people in this country, and for about 40 million people, make health insurance completely unaffordable. So Trump directly said that those same 40 million people will face malnutrition or starve, because he wants to take those subsidies and put them in a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy. The same ultra-wealthy people that couldn’t spend the fortunes they currently possess over the next thousand years, even if they tried.
And they’re willing to let people starve and die, so that they can have more.
Edit to add: by “ultra-wealthy”, there are about 300-500 families in the entire country. So they would benefit, while 40 million people will starve.
Come on now. People will most likely not starve. Kids might be a lot less food secure.
People will most likely not starve and die. This statement makes the rest of what you’re saying seem ridiculous….
I do understand why the shutdown is happening.
But the ACA is also over 15 years old