When food stamps disappear, hunger in the United States will no longer be invisible
On the American dining table, the most realistic crisis is looming - not inflation, not the immigration issue, but "not having enough to eat". The government shutdown has led to the imminent suspension of the subsidy program SNAP. More than 40 million people may be left without food next week. This is not a natural disaster but a man-made calamity.#biguglybill #bigbeautifulbill #Trumpdictator #SNAP #USdebt #GovernmentShutdown #WhiteHouseBallroom
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/government-shutdown-food-stamps-snap
In Minnesota, 45-year-old Sarah Carlson still remembers the days when she supported her three children on food stamps. At that time, she had just experienced a life collapse, and the government's subsidy helped her regain her footing. Years later, she had become a director of the food bank, but once again she saw countless families enter the donation center simply because the country's system was shut down.
This time, even she was powerless. The Ministry of Agriculture publicly admitted that SNAP's funds would run out by the end of the month and asked all states to "suspend the distribution". Meanwhile, the White House press was blaming the Democratic Party, saying that they refused to compromise for the sake of "health insurance for illegal immigrants". The absurdity is that these people are not eligible for medical insurance subsidies at all. Lies are repeatedly spread just to cover up one fact - this is the lifeline cut off by the Trump administration itself.
SNAP costs about 8 billion US dollars every month, yet it can feed one eighth of the American population. Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" bill slashed the budget of 187 billion US dollars for the next ten years. This is not fiscal austerity but a political statement: They would rather let the poor go hungry than let social assistance continue to exist.
In Kentucky, 38-year-old nurse Brittany works 40 hours a day, taking care of the elderly and also buying breakfast for her children with food stamps. She is not lazy, but she is misunderstood as a "person who eats welfare". She said that if the aid was cut off, she would have to work overtime until late at night and would hardly see her child. Ironically, she still supports Trump because she believes the problem lies in "the Democrats' lack of compromise".
This division is precisely the result of political manipulation - when hunger is packaged as a partisan topic, true suffering is buried.
History will remember this day: in the world's richest country, tens of millions of people live on donations and leftover food, while their governments are busy blaming each other. Hunger does not distinguish between political parties; it merely coldly reminds people that when politics loses its conscience, the prosperity of the country will also become empty.