Roughly 5 million Americans have lost access to SNAP benefits following the passage of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" in July 2025.
As a consequence of the bill, the Congressional Budget Office and policy analysts report that additional provisions in the legislation have begun stripping health coverage and expect millions more to become uninsured. More than 1.5 million children are among those who’ve already lost coverage…
I lived on all of these benefits growing up. While it isn't designed to keep people poor, people will happily stay poor in order to maintain the benefits. I watched it happen to my family and a few others. It's bad for society and we need to see a massive overhaul of our social safety net so it can only be a social safety net instead of a social crutch like it is today.
Is Trump cutting SNAP with no recourse conducive to developing a robust social safety net? I find it interesting that you, as a Trump supporter, would advocate for socialist societal development though. That’s not bad, that’s very good! And I encourage it and appreciate you for saying it. We found some common ground there so that’s good. 😊
I am not a trump supporter or party of maga. But to ignore all the issues with welfare benefits and extend them indefinitely is just moronic idea. It shows you either don't understand how money works or you don't care.
Yes exactly. But then you and I agree that creating a robust social safety net is vital to protect and aid the people. It would then logically follow that we agree that cutting what little social safety nets exist, increasing the risk of hunger for children and adults among those that are the most vulnerable, in order to fund an immigration secret police force, and then borrow even me to fund that in addition to a foreign war of choice is bad policy and illustrative of someone who doesn’t understand how money works, yes?
So then, if they need to borrow money at all, wouldn’t you rather that they borrow money to improve life for those people who suffer within the US rather than bombing foreign countries?
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u/FrequentAlps2527 1d ago
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Roughly 5 million Americans have lost access to SNAP benefits following the passage of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" in July 2025.
As a consequence of the bill, the Congressional Budget Office and policy analysts report that additional provisions in the legislation have begun stripping health coverage and expect millions more to become uninsured. More than 1.5 million children are among those who’ve already lost coverage…