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Food stamps: What to know about SNAP payments in January 2026

When it comes to changes for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps) payments in 2026, there have ...
CNN

Here’s why the shutdown has put food stamp benefits at risk

In an unprecedented situation, millions of Americans could lose access to a crucial food assistance program in the coming weeks amid the federal government shutdown. The US Department of Agriculture ...
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What is SNAP? Is SNAP the same as food stamps? Here's the basics as Nov. 1 cuts near

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are due to run out on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, as the government shutdown continues, and with no Senate votes planned today, Oct. 29 and no ...
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A Brief History of Right-Wing Attacks on Food Stamps

A trip through The Nation’s archives offers essential insights into why Republicans have long tried to weaken SNAP—and why they’re trying to kill it now. It should not have been surprising that the ...
New York Post

Hunger games: The government shutdown showcases food-stamp fraud and follies

The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team ...
The Daily Signal

How Does SNAP Have More People in It Than California?

Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation. Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of ...
Townhall

This Welfare Program Has a Bigger Population Than California

There was one good reason for this: There was no federal food stamp program at that time. Now, America is a nation where politicians in both parties argued during this year's government shutdown that ...