Trump Voters Could Starve As Alabama Food Banks Warn Of Shortages Due To GOP Tax Bill
Alabama is one of the biggest Trump supporting states in the country, but food banks are warning of shortages if Republicans cut food aid to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
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It has been common knowledge that the proposed Republican cuts to SNAP food assistance would have dire consequences for millions of Americans. What Republicans in red states and districts are, in some cases, turning a blind eye to is the impact the cuts will have on their communities.
For example, food banks and non-profits are sounding the alarm in Alabama that they will run out of food to feed the hungry thanks to Trump’s tax cuts for the rich.
Since Trump ended a federal program that bought food from farmers and gave it to food banks, those that help feed the hungry having been making up the difference by spending their budgets on food.
The problem is that they are going to run out of money, and demand is expected to increase.
al.com reported LAST MONTH:
“At some point we’re going to run out of money for the year,” said Nicole Williams, the CEO of the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama. “It’s devastating every day to know there are children going to bed hungry.”
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For every meal provided by an Alabama food bank, SNAP provides nine, according to Feeding Alabama.
“If $230 billion are cut from the SNAP program, there is no back up plan,” said Lester. “The pantries that are already bending under the strain have no capacity left to meet such a massive increase in need.”
According to Feeding Alabama, if Congress decreases their share of SNAP funding in Alabama by just 10%, the state would need to spend nearly $200 million to make up the difference.
Non-profits and food banks have been warning Republicans in Congress about this looming crisis for a month, and their reaction has been to steam forward with a bill that will increase hunger in America so that billionaires can have a tax cut.
While adult Trump voters don’t deserve sympathy for their bad decisions, the children that will go hungry because of the decision made by 65% of voters in Alabama to send Trump back to the White House.
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress plan to starve their supporters. The horrific part of this story is the children who will also go hungry due to Trumpian cruelty.
What do you think of Trump starving kids to cut taxes for the rich? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
I agree it is sad that Alabama children are going to go hungry because their ignorant and brain-washed parents voted for drumpf and his gang of goons. The problem with that sadness is that it extends to every state in the Union. There is not a single state that does not have at least one food bank. There is not a state that does not get SNAP funds to help support farmers, who now won't have anyone to pick crops that they can no longer sell to food banks. There is not a single state where there will be no 'hungry children.'
So while I grieve for the children of Alabama, I also grieve for the children in all the other 49 states that the Alabama adults voted drumpf into office so he could starve us all. Maybe being hungry will wake them up. Maybe be hungry will put their sorry asses out in the fields picking crops and in the meat packing plants where there are no longer migrant workers. That's what drumpf wants. He wants all the people who are left to do all the low paying, hard labor jobs for even lower pay so that he and his cronies can make even more money.
Oh, and just to put a cherry on the non-existent cake Alabama won't be eating, if you do get a drumpf phone, realize that every call you make, every text you send, everything you search for on your new gold drumpf MAGA phone will be owned by drumpf and his sons. You all truly will have stepped into the vortex and will be owned by drumpf. Hope you have fun with that...
Maybe MAGA doesn’t like their own children….