More than 770,000 children lose SNAP benefits after federal changes
NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.
Paul Rabin90I love how these ghouls always say that they have “lifted these people off of food stamps”, but they actually just denied them the food that they deserve.
Grumpy Zeus56Republicans never fail to abuse children in every horrible way imaginable.
✊🏼 NoFilterBoomer41Republicans want poor people to die.
Hittielove223Trump starved millions of children in other countries by withdrawing essential U.S. aid - now he's starving American children.
RN Mayhem19Who is taking all the welfare?
Sailing Steve18Right in line with their hypocritical agenda.
Scott Santens17This sucks but I really think we should just do UBI instead. Before these cuts, SNAP was still not reaching 1 of 3 people below 130% of the poverty line. It was still not enabling people to buy any food they want, anywhere, like cash does. It was still hitting recipients with a 30% marginal tax rate
Dona Dickinson16Hungry kids suffer while he spends our tax dollars on bombs and covering statues in gold. What a cruel demon he is.
Tileman12Y’all need to go interview some of those families Trump cut off and see how their lives have been impacted. Statistics don’t change minds but compelling stories do.
CatCmdr110Old folks cut, too (I think they still count)!
Jack Brand9Taking people off SNAP has Russ Vought written all over it. Trump couldn't tell you what SNAP even stands for. Vought is happy Trump is prancing around having UFC fights and starting wars, while he dismantles everything.
David Marantz7It’s ok, though. That money bought a fraction of a bomb we dropped on Iran to no positive outcome. We also gave a bunch of cash to the drone company the Trump boys are invested in. So all good.
okay7.bsky.social7Depriving hungry children access to food is a goal in the U.S.?
Twirled Peas6We're watching massive corruption: insider trading, slush funds, Trump/family grift, wars being started over oil... that's the short list. Meanwhile, the millionaire and billionaire flunkies are starving Americans. 4.3M people with less or no access to food is a tragedy. Cage matches over kids.
K🤦♀️𝙑6Have all the babies they said. No abortions they said. But also, have all the guns, the industrial pollution and devastated economic environment too. Here’s 1982 wages and praise them for allowing jobs to exist, but also AI will cancel it. They love the uneducated, they vote to hurt themselves.
Pattie5They screamed "America first" and then cheered when cuts were made to a program that helps Americans. Depraved, sick people.
sflubio.bsky.social5And Elon is a trillionaire.
Tim?4They'll tell their base these numbers are all because of illegals getting benefits which makes the starving of children okay for them.
m. hela fella3Horrible that children have to suffer because other than to sexually assault them or hold them hostage in the womb, trump & his administration do not care if children starve.
Thanatos3Republicans support tax cuts for the wealthy who don’t need it But they’re totally fine with children, not having even two meals a day to fund that compliance to the ultra wealthy Every republican who is fine with this needs a punch in the face
M 💓🏖️3They should pay fairly and then less people will need assistance.
Brian O'Blivion 🅰️👁3This too is "culture war." See? Casualties.
Wolf3He's lifted them out of poverty, that's a direct quote... By kicking them off supplemental nutrition benefits/food stamps
Laura Lee3Pure evil… Trump and the Republicans are starving children while spending taxpayer money on a ballroom, reflecting pool and an illegal war.
Resident of the Pale Blue Dot!2Cruelty is the point! #StopTheCoup
Franken-Pattern2Denying the most vulnerable in our society food is violence.
Ed Hirschler2Writing off hungry children permits the Clowncarcrash Administration to deny their existence. Of all the horrific acts inflicted on our most vulnerable, axing SNAP tops the list.
dabxdee.bsky.social2The party of family values and pro life, just not your family or your life. Your oppression is their profession...on your tax dollars.
mxtdoliver.bsky.social2The party of pro birth doesn't care about actual breathing children. This is nothing new. They've been this heartless for decades.
jac-2025.bsky.social2SO, WE THE PEOPLE, CAN'T AFFORD SNAP BENEFITS FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN OR HEALTHCARE FOR POOR FOLK, BUT WE CAN AFFORD $400 BILLION FOR IRAN $1,776 MILLION FOR THE INSURRECTIONISTS WHO ATTACKED CONGRESS SO THEY GET PREPAID FOR DISRUPTING OUR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER? IMPEACH CONVICT INDICT CONVICT IMPRISON!!!
Cirrus2"Research shows that children who receive SNAP benefits are healthier, have better academic outcomes, use hospitals less often and have better mental health as teenagers."
Gabby2Kids need food more than Trump needs a ballroom and J6 traitors need a payment for attacking the Capitol.
epluribusfractum.bsky.social2If kids aren't receiving the best nutrition, their brains can't develop optimally, and that will diminish what they could achieve later in life.
Isaac Smith2Republicans hate children. Even when they're raping them.
🇨🇦 Paul ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️2Yet more evidence of red voters in red states shooting themselves in the foot. And it doesn’t affect just the poorest. These people have less to spend on groceries, clothing, fuel, entertainment, healthcare — virtually every business in the economy is affected. Think of it as trickle-up economics.
A USDA spokesperson did not address ProPublica’s questions about the number of children who have lost access to SNAP. “There is no shortage of resources for the most vulnerable among us, including children,” the spokesperson said. 👀 @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
A Word6from the article: Arizona has seen the nation’s largest percentage decline in SNAP participants; 205,223 children are no longer receiving the benefit since July 2025, a 55% drop. Louisiana had the second largest percent decline among children, 22%. (Mike Johnson of Lousiana is a pretend xristian)
ᓚᘏᗢ Lily ᗢᘏᓗ3The real question here is what is the USDAs criteria for "most vulnerable" with children.
wweiss53.bsky.social3Scrooge says, ''If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. '' The lack of empathy in the dRump administration is beyond Dickensian.
Trump froze funding for food banks, shelters and nonprofits for months. After pressure from Oversight Dems, FEMA confirmed the program is legitimate and will release the money. This is good news, but Americans deserve to know why these funds were held up in the first place.
putawomanincharge.bsky.social7Well, I am certainly unhappy it took this long. We, the people, have been helping The Shelters and Food Banks. It is getting worse by the day.
Mike Check4It makes more sense if you think of freezing the funds as sabotage. The freeze served no functional purpose, it was not enough money to make an impact on any of the ideological pitches from the white house, but it did inflict pain and gum up some crucial operations. Thus the real answer is sabotage.
✙ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🖇️ ✨ 🌙 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽3The GOP intends to demoralize Americans. Thats why every conceivable slight, injury, debasement, and offense keeps happening.
Mack Steele3Because Russell Vought, the architect of ALL the madness we are seeing.....controls that money
-Max Edge-2Republican assholery is what's held it up...pure and simple.
