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With temperatures beginning to drop in areas across the United States, some states are warning that funding for the program is being delayed because of the federal government shutdown, now in its fifth week. The anticipated delay comes as a majority of the 5.9 million households served by the federally funded heating and cooling assistance program are grappling with the sudden postponement of benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries.

"five Democratic senators could cross the aisle and open the government by Wednesday."

To be fair, it's happened on the federal level. The president has put out that message. It's wrong, it's not mature, it needs to end. And I'm very disheartened with the fact that we're doing it here in Massachusetts. It's wrong, it's immature, it needs to end,

Despite the data that shows that the largest demographic benefiting from food stamps are White folks and Walmart, so much of the anti-food stamp discourse has centered on blaming the poor instead of addressing the root cause of their shortcomings. "Go get a job!" holds a lot of sway when you ignore that most food stamp recipients have jobs. AI-supercharged welfare queen deepfakes may have been a pleasure to watch and chew toast at,

In Broward and Palm Beach counties, those facing a grim countdown to the loss of food stamps range from young adults transitioning out of foster homes to Jews in their 80s and 90s who are Holocaust survivors. "It's not like I can tell them to go get a job," said Marc Hopin, CEO of Alpert Jewish Family Service, which provides social service assistance from Boynton Beach to Jupiter.

According to the Trump administration, funding will run out for the food assistance program that is relied upon by 42 million Americans to supplement their grocery bills. The administration has rejected using more than $5 billion in contingency funds to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program flowing into November. SNAP helps about 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries using debit cards normally loaded each month by the federal government.

The ladies all come in and go, 'guess what I did with those plums I got last time?' We share recipes, we talk and it's like a big family,

During America's hardest economic times, canned goods were a lifeline. From 1929, the start of the Great Depression, to 1941, when the United States entered World War II, people ate nearly 50 percent more canned fruit, by weight, compared with the preceding 13 years. Some used new community canning centers to safely preserve food for the long term, or depended on the U.S. government's first food-stamp programs to buy "surplus goods," including canned beef, mutton, goat, and peas.

🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics A Facebook post from a MAGA voter on SNAP is going viral after she called out her mother-in-law for refusing to lend her grocery money because she decided to vote for Donald Trump. 'I'm so anxious about this whole shutdown. My husband's [a] veteran using his GI bill for school. We get food stamps since I'm disabled and he's in school,' the post read.