SNAP & Poverty
1969
1969-01-01 The Black Panther Party launched its Free Breakfast for Children Program to combat student hunger.
https://www.history.com/articles/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party
2019
2019-11-08 Rebecca Friedrichs asserted that teachers’ unions promoted socialism. She claimed during a Tucker Carlson interview that pushing for free lunch programs, healthcare, and emotional support is an attempt to replace the family with indoctrination and communism.
2025 January
2025-01-20 Project 2025, page 303, aims to end community eligibility programs and universal free school meals and calls these programs “entitlements” and a “waste” of taxpayer money.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
2025 May
2025-05-06 After Trump cut after school programs, weaponized SNAP, dismantled mental health programs, fired working moms and dads, diverted taxpayer dollars to vanity projects, enriched his family business with foreign entanglements, and held lavish dinners for his billionaire friends, he told Meet the Press girls don’t need to have thirty dolls; they can have two or three.
2025 July
2025-07-04 The “Big Beautiful Bill” sharply reduced eligibility for food assistance and other aid programs serving low-income families.
2025 September
2025-09-08 As outlined on page 299 of Project 2025, the administration cut SNAP, school food programs, energy and internet assistance, and funding to the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program (SNAP-ED).
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/trumps-spending-bill-cuts-billions-in-snap-benefits.html
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/obbb-implementation
2025-09-20 The USDA stopped tracking food insecurity and terminated the annual Household Food Security Report.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/after-cuts-food-stamps-trump-administration-ends-governments-125774270 page is gone
2025 October
2025-10-28 Rob Schmitt commented on both Newsmax and X that there should be a weight limit for SNAP recipients, claiming benefits were going to people who “weigh 300 pounds” and were “selling their benefits to get their nails done and buy weaves”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/newsmax-anchor-claims-americans-using-160133829.html
https://x.com/SchmittNYC/status/1983284055996047650
2025-10-31 Trump hosted a lavish Halloween party for his billionaire friends, hours before SNAP benefits expired.
2025 November
2025-11-02 Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins perpetuated SNAP fraud claims on social media and praised Trump for withholding food assistance.
https://x.com/SecRollins/status/1985007736896053318
2025-11-03 Despite court orders, Trump continued delaying SNAP funding, at times proposing partial or no release of funds
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-defies-court-snap-ruling
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g-s1-96296/trump-deadline-contingency-funds-snap
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-administration-partially-fund-snap-months/story?id=127138175
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-snap-funding-shutdown-food-aid-00635141
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/politics/trump-administration-supreme-court-snap-benefits
2025-11-04 Trump continued to weaponize SNAP benefits posting on his social media account he would continue to leverage food for millions of Americans until the “Radical Left Democrats open up government”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115492285081397189
2025-11-10 The Agriculture Department threatened to penalize states that didn’t “undo” steps to fully fund SNAP.
https://factkeepers.com/trump-administration-threatens-states-that-dont-undo-full-snap-payments/
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603417/full-snap-benefits-trump-states-order
2025-11-10 Eight Democratic senators joined Republicans in voting to reopen the government without additional concessions, and nobody voted to take back the $40B bailout that Trump gave to Argentina.
https://time.com/7332610/8-senators-broke-with-democrats-to-end-government-shutdown/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-democrats-vote-end-government-shutdown/
https://meidasnews.com/news/republicans-vote-no-on-using-argentina-bailout-money-for-aca-subsidies
2026 April
2026-04-16 The Trump administration defunded Catholic charities that provide shelter and care for migrant children.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/pope-trump-vance-catholic-charities-contract-canceled
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/catholic-charities-federal-funding-cut-miami/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hECf9ZCGws&list=WL&index=7
SUB WALL https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-pope-leo-criticism-vance-catholic-peace