People who rely on the federal food assistance program might not receive their benefits for the month of November because of the ongoing government shutdown.

I think the Democrats will stop the shutdown before snap ends but if they don’t American society might actually start to collapse.

It will be chaos be 12% of the population, millions of people can’t get food.

  • Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    26·
    10 days ago

    Food pantrys across the US are already running out of food.

    I don’t think people realize people are going to begin starving.

    There’s going to be riots and chaos and definitely anti government action because of this.

    Now I expect the Dems to fold before this happens but we’ll see.

  • dragongloss [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    10 days ago

    I already do because my SNAP has constantly declined over the last 5 years. During the height of covid it was 379 a month then went to 279 a month. Now it is 169 month. My income on Social Security has barely changed at all, only small cost of living increases and when that happens my SNAP goes down so it ends up being a loss in overall funds anyway.

  • Grapho@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    I’m convinced by now that the only thing that would get gringos to revolt is literal starvation and these dumb mfs are playing chicken with the prospect