Using SNAP as Leverage Was a Bad Idea the First Time

During this fall’s government shutdown, when food banks faced lines circling the block, President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that he’d become the face of his administration’s refusal to fund SNAP food benefits.

“I do NOT want Americans to go hungry,” he insisted on Truth Social in October, even as he waged a pitched legal battle to keep the nation’s largest anti-hunger program idled along with the rest of the federal government.