With SNAP benefits set to run dry on November 1 and the Schumer Shutdown dragging on, all because Democrats refuse to pass a clean Continuing Resolution, brace yourself — stories like this will be everywhere. The left’s political games are hitting real Americans where it hurts, and they’ll try to spin it as anyone’s fault but their own.
While two judges have ordered the Trump administration to fund SNAP — even though it’s Congress, not the courts, that controls the nation’s purse strings — there’s still no word on if or when those benefits will actually be restored, even on an emergency basis.
In New Mexico, one woman told reporters that losing her SNAP benefits was “detrimental to my life.” What the media conveniently left out? She’s been on the program for thirty years — a perfect snapshot of how Democrats’ broken welfare system traps people in permanent dependence instead of helping them achieve real independence.
Is she really disabled or is she just using SNAP benefits as a way of life?
That was the most common response to that story.
Democrats love to claim — with a straight face — that every dollar spent on SNAP somehow creates $1.50 to $1.80 in economic activity. If that’s true, why stop there? Why not put everyone on SNAP and call it an economic boom? It’s the kind of magical math only Washington Democrats could believe, where government dependency is “stimulus” and fiscal responsibility is the real villain.
Even if we play along and assume this woman truly can’t work and has needed food stamps for 30 years, was the media really unable to find a single person who needed temporary help — someone who might actually earn public sympathy? Of course not. They chose this story on purpose. It was an editorial decision designed to tug at heartstrings and push a narrative — and it completely backfired.