An analysis published Wednesday by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities found that millions of low-income Americans have stopped participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ever since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law last year.
According to CBPP’s analysis, SNAP participation declined by 6% between July 2025 and December 2025, with 2.5 million fewer Americans receiving benefits.
Have the day you voted for quarterwhits.
As I’ve stated dozens of times here on Lemmy already, American society is sociopathic. Valuing freedom over all else, and considering sociopathy the ultimate expression of freedom.
Trump is a symptom not the disease.
Trump is a symptom not the disease
People would rather use him as a scapegoat for everything rather than actually reflect on the causes. Especially if causes require effort to fix
It requires more than effort, it requires a change of mentality in USA, that just doesn’t seem to happen like it has in other democracies. Maybe because USA is such a flawed democracy.
Lot’s of Americans stand on the right side of the issues, but they are not a majority, and there is basically no talk of reforming the democracy in USA to improve it.
Freedom for whom?
That’s not even being debated, it’s just like a religious mantra, all rules are bad because they limit freedom is the general sentiment.
Americans prefer the freedom to carry arms, instead of the freedom from being in danger of being shot at almost any time almost anywhere.
In Europe where laws are more based on making a good life for the general public, there is much more freedom for everybody. Freedom of expression, freedom for a woman to walk alone at night in the city, freedom for a child to walk to school. Freedom to seek treatment for disease without being bankrupted. Freedom to start a union protected by law at your workplace.It’s not about for whom, it’s about the kinds of freedoms that exist that are actually valuable. In USA they prefer more freedom from taxes for the 1%, instead of getting healthcare for all.
It’s just so completely different mindsets, where in USA freedom is based on selfishness everyone for themselves, where in Europe it is more about freedom for everybody to live a good life even if you get sick or get fired.
They don’t even value freedom that much. If you have sufficient money you can take anyone’s freedom.
True, Americans have a very distorted view on freedom. They only consider freedom to, as if you have power and money, but not freedom from. as in not being oppressed, not being shot, not being underpaid.
Not even, you have freedom to, right up until a cop or busybody decides they don’t like it
Exactly, the American pursuit of freedom instead of humanitarian values, has actually given them less freedom instead of more.
I guess it’s a good thing he didn’t also run the economy into the ground all while setting up a perfect storm for hyperinflation.
Oh, wait, nevermind.
And spending millions of dollars a day on a fucking ridiculous war they started for no reason
To any of those 2.5 million Americans who voted for Trump: go fuck yourself, I hope you starve and exit the gene pool so you can no longer drag down the rest of society.
To any of those 2.5 million who voted against Trump: my heart breaks for you.
What are your feeling for those who didn’t vote of voted third party.
They’re idiots for not voting, but also mostly not evil. I’m sure there are some crazy MAGA people who just don’t vote, but also many regular people who just aren’t politically informed.
They might as well have voted for Trumpo then.
The results of a broken two party system.
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I wonder how many of these people bothered to vote?
The children, seniors, and disabled snap recipients who are fighting to survive better have voted in this increasingly hostile electoral system or we can disregard their suffering with a smug comment.
Dot world lib brain privilege at work.