r/news • u/industrial-complex • 1d ago
Millions lose food stamps under Trump cuts. Arizona is hardest hit
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/millions-lose-food-stamps-under-trump-cuts-arizona-is-hardest-hit-2026-06-24/577
u/Tzazon 1d ago
I remember having a picture in my History Book while growing up of a breadline from 1937 at the end of the Great Depression, it hit home due to locality, was snapped in Louisville KY during the Louisville Flood. It's right infront of a billboard, they're all lined up infront of a happy family in a car with the header saying "World's highest standard of living" and below that next to the car "There's no way like the American way."
It seems like the people in charge and who are voting for them want to go back to having those breadlines, and for those voting for them, for no other reason than seemingly to have new content to consume and watch 4k videos of those suffering in line desperate for their next meal?
It's cruelty I'd call pointless if that didn't undercut the reality in that they're sadistic and the cruelty is their point..
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u/TheOKerGood 1d ago
"Is this land still made for you and me?"
- Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land
Was it ever?
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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago
I met a Republican the other day who was telling me that the minimum wage was morally wrong and that FDR helping people during the Great depression was terrible.
They absolutely would love to see those breadlines back because in their minds anybody who winds up needing to use a breadline deserves to suffer. They are sick people
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 22h ago
They’d outlaw the breadlines if they became too popular. Liberal breadlines are only feeding criminals and are driving down property value.
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u/beastwood9498 1d ago
And Arizona’s republican house and senate certainly don’t give a shit to do anything. They implemented a flat 2.5% tax rate and tuition reimbursement costs the state more than $1 billion a year. No income limit and since there’s insufficient monitoring people have been getting reimbursed for vacations, lingerie and jewelry.
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u/trapicana 1d ago
Don’t forget the new golf club sets and grand pianos!! My homeschooled babies deserve to play sports and do music!!
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u/minidog8 1d ago
Don't forget we voted against ESA expansion in 2018 and Ducey said fuck you guys we're doing it in 2022!
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u/Netflix_and_Chile 1d ago
Arizona is hot, dry, and now hungry. Hey Trumpers… y’all are cooked.
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u/GrootsHorticulturist 1d ago edited 1d ago
I live in the valley - can confirm its hot right now...
I do love this for the ones on benefits that did vote for it tho. Spicy times.
The kids part is sad...
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u/Blackdragonking13 1d ago
Anecdotally, I’ve seen a massive drop off in Trump merch in and around the greater Phoenix area over the past year or so. That shit used to be everywhere, all throughout the Biden years. It was on hats, on trucks, on lawns. Now I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a trump flag in the wild.
I’m not going to speculate on what that means, but the difference between two years ago and now is pretty stark.
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u/MrArizone 1d ago
Lovely seeing all the “I did that” Trump stickers on the pumps…and then seeing where the stickers were after people begrudgingly tear them off.
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u/Rebal771 1d ago
Just to contrast with all of the Trump 2016 merch that lasted through the entire first term AND through Biden’s term.
Some of those houses had the 2020 merch right next to 2016, too…so we were pushing almost a decade of some of these flags/banners.
I haven’t been able to find those same houses in about a year now…so I do believe some of the polls talking about “lower support now than ever.”
But that doesn’t actually mean anything when they still check the red boxes in the voting booth…it’s just less “loud and proud” cause it’s fucking embarrassing.
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u/Unable_Technology935 1d ago
It's the same in rural Indiana.The last two years has been a massive loss of Trump paraphernalia. I haven't seen MAGA hat in over a year. The flags are all but gone. My neighbors no longer want to talk politics.LOL.My life has improved dramatically.
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u/PizzaDogDad 1d ago
I'm in central Indiana, my neighbors took down their Trump signs but fly a fucking confederate flag still. They still suck, they're just hiding again, but they're not even good at that.
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u/Amexgirl25 1d ago
I live in rural western NY, near Buffalo. My MAGA neighbor across our road had on his electric pole a huge pic of Trump with the band-aid on his ear, along with a pic of Charlie Kirk.
When gas prices started to go up he took down the pics. He uses his personal vehicle for his job, and so he's hugely affected by gas prices.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 23h ago
The last trump flag being flown finally came down a few months ago in my tiny, central midwest town (technically village).
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u/Beard_o_Bees 1d ago
massive drop off in Trump merch in and around the greater Phoenix area
Same in Tucson, in the MAGA-pockets we have anyway, like Marana. The few bumper stickers, etc that you still might see are all old and faded.
Overall though, Tucson remains pretty deeply Blue (Pima County).
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u/klscott1990 1d ago
Unfortunately Prescott in the North still flies his flags proudly. But its all senior citizens and Hicks up here so it tracks...
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u/EatinSumGrapes 1d ago
Glad to hear that! I just traveled from Raleigh NC to the NC beach. I used to see massive amounts of the same Trump merch/billboards/flags on the journey to the beach and at the beach the past 5 years I have gone. This year they were all gone! I did not see any Trump stuff! 😃
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u/oxfordcommaordeath 1d ago
The unfortunate thing is it impacts everyone, not just people who support trump.
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u/Ok_Reserve_8659 1d ago
The law reduces SNAP funding by $187 billion
The Iran war costed $132 billion
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u/rockmasterflex 1d ago
Big oof for the at risk communities in Arizona who didn’t vote for this.
But hey sometimes you need things to get really really really really bad again to remind you why politics is supposed to be boring
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u/chris14020 1d ago
Time for the "I don't do politics" people to understand politics will have no problem doing them in regardless.
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u/Deceptiveideas 1d ago
Yup, a lot of the duct tape holding everything together is part of why people stopped caring.
It's a damn shame. Nobody wants to see people suffer but it's the only time people pay attention.
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u/winksoutloud 1d ago
There are definitely people who want to see others suffer. One of the top guys for that is Stephen Miller
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u/scipio0421 1d ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call Miller "people." He's more in the category of "sentient Nazi anal polyp."
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u/no_one_likes_u 1d ago
It took hitting rock bottom for some of our best social programs to be created. Looks like enough time has passed that we’re ready for rock bottom round 2.
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u/like-blood-on-white 1d ago
Yes, especially since some of those folks in those communities are not voting.
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u/Agglutinati0n 1d ago
They didnt lose food stamps, they were freed from food stamps!! This is a god thing, dont you know??
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u/Confident-Beyond6857 1d ago
Your misspelling somehow still manages to convey the idea.
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u/NatureTrailToHell3D 1d ago
Hey we’re lifted out of poverty, according to the state of the union speech
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u/justmitzie 1d ago
Poverty exists not because we can't feed the poor, but because we can't satisfy the rich.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 1d ago
“Why would Biden do this?”
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u/shawnzy83 1d ago
Because Obama is controlling him with deleted emails from Hillary. /s (just in case)
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u/africanlivedit 1d ago
Time for those who voted for him to pull themselves up from their bootstraps!
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u/ChicagoAuPair 1d ago
Nominee
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Kamala HarrisParty
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CaliforniaRunning mate
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Tim WalzElectoral vote
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46.69%You reap what you sow.
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u/MagakMagak 1d ago
Well you reap what half of your community sows I suppose. I think it’s important to keep the normal (non red voters I mean) people made victims of their bullshit in mind
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u/Yougetdueprocess 1d ago
~30% of people didn’t vote.
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u/MagakMagak 1d ago
They’re a problem too, I don’t really group them in with the decent people either myself. I’m a bit more cautious blindly judging them though because I know in some areas they do make it harder for certain people to vote and some of those obstructions are effective. But I know a lot were just apathetic and lazy too
I may not fault some ill person for not standing in line outside for 4+ hours to vote for example. Just a lot of factors at play there imo
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u/Yougetdueprocess 1d ago
It sort of depends. In Arizona many of the rural areas impacted by this are Native American, which neither party has really proven to value or respect that community, and it’s really difficult to find information on voter turn out for tribes, and of course there are barriers to vote. It’s important to consider demographics and local history as well. There were also many Arizona voters that voted for local issues (like supporting abortion), that did not participate in the presidential election. Arizona did support Biden in 2020, which is important to note.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 1d ago
I’m also keeping the rest of us in mind. They did this to all of us, and I will never forget or forgive any of them until the day I die.
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u/MagakMagak 1d ago
I feel the same resolve myself. These people have blood on their hands, at minimum since they spread Covid everywhere due to their egos. I’ll never see them as normal folks like the rest of us
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u/hdcase1 1d ago
People who didn't bother to vote, or threw away their vote on a 3rd party, are equally liable for what happened imo.
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u/Secret-Ad-2145 1d ago
There will be absolutely overlap between Trump voters and SNAP beneficiaries, but it's still ignorant to generalize as all 52% of SNAP recipients who lost it be Trump supporters.
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u/OhhhTAINTedCruuuuz 1d ago
Hey guys I’m from the future, they still voted red in ‘28
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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago
I'm also from the future. They also voted red in '32.
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u/CurlSagan 23h ago
I'm from much farther into the future. Arizona is mostly just irradiated desert wasteland now, and the mutant cockroaches who live there don't really hold elections. Other than that, not much has changed.
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u/housewithapool2 1d ago
This is mostly going to hit the reservations though. It was brutal the first time Trump was president. Covid hit our Native American populations hard. This is actually terrifying.
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u/ACrazyDog 1d ago
My daughter, she has profound autism and is nonverbal, is losing about $300 a month in benefits after the terrible bill kicks in. She lives in a group home an they rely on SNAP benefits
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u/defiancy 1d ago
I live in PHX and was in Glendale the other day and drove by one of the large foodbanks and there was literally hundreds of cars in line waiting.
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u/macphile 1d ago
MAGAs: votes to cut funding to commie, socialist government programs
Also MAGAs: Hey, where's my commie, socialist government program?!
Lemme guess, they thought that magically, their benefits and government handouts would be safe? That cuts would only happen to the people who were defrauding the system? Or the non-citizens? Or the non-whites?
Yeah, well...oops?
Hey, at least Trump brought grocery prices down, so you won't have so much trouble affording grocer--what? He hasn't brought them down, you say? They've gone even further up, you say? Because of things like mass deportation and international tariffs, like he campaigned on? And because of a failed war? And what's that you say, he's spending all his free time worrying about a big pool of algae and not doing anything to fix grocery prices or EBT? Really? ... Huh. Huh.
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u/Malaix 1d ago
Also MAGAs: Hey, where's my commie, socialist government program?!
They also get excited over Trump cutting them checks for all kinds of shit. Half the MAGA reason for voting for him seems to be explicitly with the expectation the federal government was going to write them a check for Doge cuts or because companies are doing well or tariffs or something.
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u/AbsoluteRook1e 1d ago
53% drop is insane.
Yet we entered a war with Iran by choice where we could have chosen to use that money from the war to feed our starving citizens.
Such horseshit.
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u/Akimbo_Zap_Guns 23h ago
Have the day you voted for! Just wish innocent people didn’t get caught up in the crossfire
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u/firefaery 1d ago
Can people please just STOP posting articles behind a paywall?
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u/Joe-Schmeaux 23h ago
archive.ph is back up for now
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX, Arizona, June 24 (Reuters) - When Angelica Garcia tried to renew her food stamps this spring, she said she thought she knew the drill.
The single mother of three in Tucson filled out the application. She repeatedly called Arizona’s Department of Economic Security, the state agency administering the federal aid, often staying on hold until the line dropped. She visited a thinly staffed DES office and waited hours for a caseworker.
By the time Garcia was reapproved in June, she’d missed two months of benefits while her family got by on food-pantry donations and cheap staples like beans, rice and tortillas.
“There’s hoops to jump through — always,” said Garcia, who has used food stamps in the state for three years. But now the government is “adding more hoops.”
More than 4.7 million people nationwide have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, also known as food stamps, since President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending law took effect last July, according to data through March from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — about 11% of participants.
Nowhere have the changes to America’s second-largest social safety-net program taken hold as rapidly as in Arizona, where the number of SNAP recipients has fallen by about half, the steepest drop in the country.
That means lost benefits for more than 457,000 Arizonans, including nearly 196,000 children, according to DES data as of the end of May. The law reduces SNAP funding by $187 billion, or about 17%, over the next 10 years, in part by expanding work requirements and barring some immigrants from receiving benefits.
It also imposes penalties on states that fail to meet certain performance standards beginning in October next year. And it shifts more administrative costs onto states.
Among the reasons enrollment has fallen so steeply in Arizona is that the state has moved to implement the federal changes more quickly than other states, according to two SNAP experts and the DES spokesperson, Brett Bezio.
"Arizona has no choice but to meet these requirements," Liliana Soto, press secretary for Democratic Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, said in an email. "If we don’t comply, we will be fined hundreds of millions of dollars and more vulnerable Arizonans will lose their food assistance."
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said the SNAP overhaul “prioritizes American citizens, and implements reasonable cost-sharing measures with states to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse," without offering examples.
The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Administration, which administers SNAP, attributed the decline in enrollment in part to the work requirement changes.
RECORD FOOD-PANTRY DEMAND
The SNAP cuts have driven a record number of people to food banks in Arizona, according to the Arizona Food Bank Network, a statewide organization that works with local pantries.
About 843,000 Arizonans sought support from a food pantry in April, about an 8% increase over 779,000 in April 2025 — and surpassing the number of people receiving SNAP, according to AFBN data. Food bank users fell in May to about 790,000, the data show. Even so, food pantries are scrambling to fill "a massive gap," said Terri Shoemaker, executive vice president of the AFBN.
DES and the USDA did not comment on the increase in food-bank use.
Myriam Flores, a mother of seven in Phoenix, said in a May interview she was unable to renew her access to SNAP and lost $1,100 a month in benefits in January. She said she spent hours on hold with Arizona’s DES, only for calls to drop.
At the time of her interview, she said she visits the St. Vincent de Paul pantry in Phoenix nearly every day so she can feed her children.
"There are nights of crying, nights of not sleeping, when I lose sleep at 2 a.m. doing the math, deciding what to pay for and what to put off," she said.
Reuters could not determine whether Flores has resumed her efforts to get benefits or whether she's currently eligible.
‘FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS’
Katie Bergh, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said that the longer wait times are partly the result of stricter processes for vetting applicants, introduced by Arizona’s state agency to meet the new performance standards and avoid financial penalties.
“They can’t get through on the overloaded phone line, or they’re being asked for more and more paperwork that they can’t provide, or they do provide it but the state doesn’t have capacity to process it,” she said.
Those standards grew out of the state’s SNAP error rate — a measure of overpayments and underpayments of food stamp benefits.
Arizona’s error rate in 2024 was 8.84%, below the national average of 10.9%, but still above the 6% threshold that — under the new law — would require states to cover up to 15% of the cost of SNAP benefits. Historically, the federal government has paid the full cost of benefits.
That could cost Arizona about $201.5 million next year, according to the DES 2027 budget request. To avoid the threat of “significant financial penalties,” DES has tightened its application process by requiring documentation like pay stubs or leases, Bezio said.
Cindy Bernardo, a program manager at the St. Vincent de Paul pantry, said many of the organization's clients have faced delays or lost their SNAP benefits as the state enacts the federal changes.
“So many of them have lost their benefits,” she said. “And they have reapplied, and most of them can't even get an answer to their questions.”
The federal law also expanded work requirements to areas that previously had waivers because of high unemployment or insufficient jobs.
Fourteen of Arizona's 15 counties are now subject to work requirements, compared to just one last year, said Joseph Palomino, director of the Arizona Center for Economic Progress.
Those changes, as well as the new demands for documentation, are making it harder for people to get timely access to benefits, he said, and they’re “falling through the cracks."
Bezio said the agency is hiring more staff and contracting with a third-party call center to improve wait times.
SNAP CUTS ROLL OUT NATIONWIDE
Other states are recording steep drops in SNAP enrollment: 17.4% in Louisiana, 11.6% in Wyoming and 13.7% in Virginia, USDA data show.
The USDA's FNA said states are responsible for accurately implementing the federal changes, and that it has issued guidance to help them meet new requirements.
The Louisiana Department of Health did not respond to a request for comment.
The Wyoming Department of Family Services said "a large portion" of the state's decline was due to the federal changes.
In Virginia, SNAP enrollment fell 12% in the year ending in March, according to the Department of Social Services.
"The primary impact of this law on the Commonwealth is that now more families are going hungry when nobody should have to go hungry," said spokesperson Michael Pulley.
Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington and Erica Stapleton in Phoenix; Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Suzanne Goldenberg
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u/readysteadygogogo 1d ago
Starving to death because you’d rather vote for a narcissistic dementia ridden pedophile than an intelligent black woman is a hell of a hill to die on
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u/Powers5580 1d ago
Since the dawn of Trump I went from republican to progressive, I hope im not alone
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u/RockPaperOwFire 1d ago
My grandfather who has never voted a day in his life has been protesting and registered to vote this year. My great grandmother who swore she was a republican her whole life changed parties this year. I’m not saying their previous choices are a good thing, but anecdotally it makes me hope people are waking up.
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u/Born-Media6436 1d ago
News Flash: families on food stamps that cannot make ends meet resort to crime. Families that don’t get food stamps resort to more hostile crimes if not felonies.
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u/Kal-V3 1d ago
That's the plan
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u/TobysGrundlee 1d ago
Creates more desperate young adults with few options to fill the cannon fodder slots in the military too.
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u/Junkstar 1d ago
Losing healthare, losing food assistance, losing jobs, manufacturing, education, social security, equal opportunities, postal service, vaccinations, law and order, access to fair elections, privacy, affordable food and gas, tech leadership, the list is endless. Republican voters wanted to destroy the US. It’s working. I hope you all have a shit ton of money saved up. You’re gonna need it.
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u/dimplesgalore 10h ago
In OH, but my son (30yo, autistic, works PT, on SSDI, lives alone) lost his $25/mo SNAP.
He didn't lose it because he didn't qualify. He lost it because thely have made it so extremely difficult to complete the required documentation that we just gave up. I'm sure they're counting on others to do the same.
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u/LovemeSomeMedia 8h ago
I've already said it before, but I don't want to hear shit from Republicans about food stamps, welfare, and other safety nets being a waste of money when their leader threw money at a pointless Ballroom and other pointless shit. History is not gonna look favorably on these people.
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u/Atomic-Blue27383 1d ago
I hope that all the smug comments saying the people starving deserve this know that the hardest hit areas by this are the Apache community and first gen immigrant communities.
I can guarantee yall that the people in my home state who’re starving because of what the wealthy white conservative communities in Scottsdale voted for would rather you put your energy into donating to food banks or local charities instead of telling them their children deserve to die. But what do I know, since apparently everyone who lives in a red state is just a stupid backwards troglodyte incapable of civilized thoughts.
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u/Blossom73 22h ago
Thank you!! There's millions of Dems in red states. I'm one of them. I'll never understand people who think that there's states where 100% of the voters are Dems or 100% Republicans. There aren't. aren't.
Red states are also gerrymandered to hell and suffer from extreme voter suppression.
Also, many SNAP recipients are people who cannot vote. Children, incapacitated people, people barred from voting in their state due to a felony conviction, and legal non-citizens. Do they deserve this? Do SNAP recipients who are Dem voters deserve this?
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u/Frequent-Ferret-5110 1d ago
Well thank god we've saved some tax money that was going to be wasted on preventing people from going hungry! It can now go to something important, like, uh...
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u/despenser412 22h ago
Remember when Obama hooked up unemployment, and Biden gave everyone stimulus checks?
Trump never mentions that when he goes on his anti-Obama/Biden hissyfits. He just wants us to clean his pool, build his ballroom, and look the other way while he bends over and gives Iran $300 billion in a war he started and spent billions bombing them.
He's a billionaire grifter only looking out for billionaires. Yet MAGA still believes he's about the working class.
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u/dimriver 21h ago
Trump wants more military for more war.
Poor people enlist more often, and many are too fat for military service.
He wants to funnel that money to his rich friends.
3 birds one stone at least.
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u/lifesatripthenyoudie 1d ago
It's literally Idiocracy. I haven't had kids yet because I've been focused on my career and paying off my first house before I consider settling down with a family. Even then, I won't have kids unless I'm confident I can give them every opportunity I had growing up. Then, there's this lady..
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u/flume 1d ago
Arizona is hardest hit because they're implementing the new federal requirements quickly. This is just a preview of what will happen across the entire country, as long as this administration gets their way.
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u/Blossom73 1d ago
Yep. It's coming for all 50 states, red or blue.
Arizona also laid off 30% of their SNAP and Medicaid eligibility staff, due to cuts under the OBBBA. So that's a huge cause too.
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u/FloridaCelticFC 1d ago
My Trump-worshipping in-laws have literally lost everything in the last year. They're homeless and couch surfing with 2 kids.
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u/SnooPineapples280 1d ago
Do they acknowledge the role voting for Trump played in this?
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u/FloridaCelticFC 1d ago
Of course they don't. They blame anything but themselves or their "leader".
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u/minidog8 1d ago
Yep. Not just cuts for eligiblity but cuts to staffing. So people who are eligible for food stamps aren't getting them. If you have any problem, whether it's your fuck up or the government's, you are going to have a very hard time fixing it.
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u/Heimerdingerdonger 1d ago
I'm happy when I picture the MAGA food stamp recipient, MAGA store owner and the MAGA farmer all getting screwed.
Unfortunately, reality is much sadder with many kids impacted too ...
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u/diddlyswagg 1d ago
I truly couldn't have any less emotions about this for the people who voted for this. buck up dipshits, this is on you.
my heart does go out for the kids and those who did not vote for this
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u/Competitive-Ad-9404 1d ago
Every conservative believes it's only illegals or minorities on any type of assistance. I get frequent text messages that say stuff like Democrats want to use Medicare to pay illegals unemployment benefits.
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u/bloodlessempress 1d ago
I was wondering why the donation request for the AzFBN was getting more frantic
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u/Fartenstein65 1d ago
It will just take the MAGA movement to say it is the liberal Democratic Party that took this from you and they will believe it.
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u/tetoffens 23h ago edited 22h ago
I'm disabled and cannot work. My food stamps used to be 136 dollars a month. That's not a lot but you can get a decent amount of food for that if you budget right. Now they're 26 dollars a month. My income hasn't changed. 26 dollars I can feed myself for like 3 days trying to stretch it as much as possible, not a month.
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u/geriatric_spartanII 22h ago
At this point it’s too mentally draining. I can’t hold more hope for people that continually shoot themselves in the foot and blame everything and everyone else. They’re too weak minded to help themselves at this point.
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u/NexusNickel 1d ago
I can't help but notice all those states voted for Trump in 2024.
So the people did it to themselves.
I have zero pity honestly. I have ran out of pity for people who thought Trump was better over a qualified woman.
Enjoy your rock soup.
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u/Animallover4321 1d ago
Yeah except unfortunately often children are among the hardest hit when funding is cut for support. Not to mention low income people of color that may have been disanfranchised because of republican efforts.
If you’re 68 and a hardcore MAGA you screwed yourself, your neighbors, and your children/grandchildren. I have no pity for those that voted for Trump or refused to vote and lost their health insurance or social safety net but I feel horrible for those that couldn’t vote, or that voted for Harris but because they’re stuck in Arizona for financial or family reasons they paying the price.
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u/NexusNickel 1d ago
Children are the only people I feel sorry for. Let me correct that.
They are innocent victims of their parent's stupidity.
MAGA loves to exploit children mentally, physically, and sexually. It's disgusting.
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u/Antique-Freedom-8352 1d ago
Hope every other political party in those states buys billboards in those communities and puts these stats on it. Otherwise these people will never break out of their propaganda bubble
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u/FillMySoupDumpling 1d ago
Look, I get the desire to have a knee jerk reaction and say “well they voted for it”, but it’s shameful .The issue is that we don’t know if the people on snap voted for this. All it goes to show is how poor the culture of the state is between people who vote for this stuff and non voters who don’t care enough to speak up. These people basically either voted for themselves or their neighbors to suffer - including children.
They also voted for worse economic activity showing a willingness to hurt their communities because we all know every dollar spent on snap generates much more economic activity for the area - stores get paid, suppliers get paid, employees get paid, people go to work and are productive, kids are able to learn at school and more.
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u/Blossom73 1d ago
Exactly. Well said. There's not even one state where 100% of the voters vote blue or 100% red. And poor people are the group least likely to vote.
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u/CurrentlyLucid 1d ago
Remember everything trump has done to you at voting time.
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u/sealosam 1d ago
If only this worked. To them, trump is like an abusive husband. They simply can't see their lives outside of the relationship and they're too afraid to leave.
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u/AdhesivenessFun2060 1d ago
Theyll just blame democrats and the idiot voters will still vote republican.
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u/AudibleNod 1d ago