The Republican Budget Plan: Snatch Food From the Mouths of Hungry Children - The American Prospect

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When you walk into the supermarket, do you calculate the cost of each meal as you go along, tallying up the per-meal cost of your eggs, cans of beans, and bananas? If you were to calculate it, how much would a day of eating cost you? For the nearly 24 million households that receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the help they receive for a day of eating is just $6 per person—that’s the average daily allowance for Americans on SNAP.

Advocates say that number has never been high enough, but during an era of inflation and tariffs, it’s even more inadequate.

Cindy Camp, a Baltimore grandmother and caregiver who spoke at a March 25 House Democratic hearing on the threat to SNAP, said the rising cost of food means her family’s SNAP benefits don’t last them the full month.

“I go to the market and I just cry sometimes, because I’m trying to figure out what I can afford,” she said. “I’m already struggling to provide the fresh, healthy foods I know [my grandkids] need to grow and thrive. I haven’t bought eggs in a very long time. We rely on cheap, processed foods and food banks to help fill in the gaps.”

And now, Republicans are poised to cut SNAP benefits even more, a move that would devastate tens of millions of Americans and chip away at nearly 90 years of anti-poverty policy since the first food stamps program—SNAP’s predecessor—was started in the U.S.

https://prospect.org/health/2025-04-11-republican-budget-plan-snatch-food-hungry-children-snap-food-stamps/

[Celerity]

1. kick

[sakabatou]

2. Repukes don't care about the little people

because they don't bribe them with enough money.

[raccoon]

4. That's a big 10-4.

[BoRaGard]

3. So the G.O.P. can shovel the money to wealthy republicons

as always and ever.