3.5 million Texans will see food assistance halted if government shutdown continues

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BY TERRI LANGFORD
OCT. 17, 2025, 10:48 A.M. CENTRAL

Texas officials began notifying the state’s poorest residents on Friday that their food benefits via the Supplemental Food Assistance and Nutrition Program, or SNAP, will be cut off in November if the federal shutdown continues past Oct. 27.

In Texas, that would mean a halt to more than $614 million to the 3.5 million who rely each month on SNAP, also known as food stamps. Of those who could be impacted, 1.7 million are children.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, which oversees the SNAP program, notified state agencies a week ago that if the shut down persists, November payments to participants would be halted.

“SNAP has funding available for benefits and operations through the month of October,” according to a letter written by the FNS office to state agencies. “However, if the current lapse in appropriations continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the Nation.”

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1.7 million Texas children will be affected! How is this a “Democrat program?”

Trump had dinner last night with folks from Amazon, Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft and Palantir and defense giant Lockheed Martin in a room full of gold tchotchkes and drapes.

How much did this cost me? Hw many children will miss meals to pay for this?

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1. Matthew 25:35

I believe that the Bible says that Christians are supposed to feed the hungry. That seems to be a concep ignored by the national Republican Party, the Texas state Republican Party, and the incumbent administration from Orange Zjulius on down.

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2. Yep

Mentioned Matthew 25 to one of my relatives last week. She said “What’s that?”

Seriously you can’t make this stuff up. Yes, she goes to church every Sunday.

I dunno

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3. I got exposed at a tender age to Fundies who (supposedly) read the Bible front to back and were ever ready

to drag out some verse or other to attack “Sin.” (Usually to attack hair length, clothing styles, hanky panky, and rock and roll). Oddly enough the social action verses were rarely quoted.

These days right-wingers seem to be far less well-read about their source materials and are as prone to practice what they once denounced as “Cafeteria Christianity” as the “liberal” straw- men they condemn.

I admit that I should probably kick in a bit more to local food banks. But I’m under no illusion that private charity could replace the resources of government food programs, a conceit much loved by ideologues, hucksters, ivory tower-dwelling fools, and the scam artists infesting the secular and religious segments of the so-called “Conservative” Movement.