After two federal courts forced its hand, the White House now says it will pay half of SNAP payments.

Millions of Americans are in crisis and struggling with uncertainty after the Trump administration halted crucial food benefits on Saturday — and it’s not clear when those SNAP payments will resume or how much money families will receive.

Why it matters: Rising food costs were already hurting coming into 2025, but a raft of policy actions from the Trump administration have worsened the situation.

State of play: Low-income families are scrambling to figure out how to pay for food, and facing some painful choices in the coming days: deciding whether they can pay rent or other bills or skipping meals so their children can eat.

Some will have to choose between going to work or standing in line at the local food bank, where need has been growing all year.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    I draw 2 conclusions about the administration from these actions:

    • they want a civil war or at least a reason to invoke the insurrection act
    • the cruelty was always the point
    • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think he wants a civil war, I think he’s not particularly worried about it, and is confident in his own brinksmanship. I definitely think people in his clique want it, but, I think he’s quite happy with the current situation.

      I also think he’s confident in his ability to turn the outrage against the democrats. To use the cruelty to spark outrage and then direct that outrage at the opposition.

      I also think he’s surrounded him self with people who will only tell him what he wants to hear, and that, if this gambit fails, he won’t understand that until republican’s in congress start breaking ranks.

    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 month ago

      I think he is in enough of a bubble that he thinks that

      1. his base won’t blame him, they’ll blame democrats (he’s partially right)
      2. there’s no actual path from ‘food insecurity’ -> ‘Trump removed’

      The elections may very well have changed that perception, however, because he actually tweeted out that he was considering funding SNAP a day or 2 after the elections.