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After Historic SNAP Cuts, America's Hunger Emergency Is Already Here--and Trump's Proposed Budget Would Make It Worse Ms.
We are on the precipice of a hunger catastrophe in America, forged by morally bankrupt Republicans who privileged billionaires over our nation’s most vulnerable. It’s going to result in millions of children, single mothers and families losing access to food benefits with few alternatives.
And you might not even know about it, as much of this crisis has unfolded outside national headlines.
Last summer, the Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill directed the most devastating attacks on Americans’ basic needs programs in generations. The Republican budget cuts targeted a dizzying number of social safety net programs from a wide range of critical areas. Federal assistance programs like healthcare and hunger were slashed to the bone.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) saw cuts of hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade—by far the largest in the program’s history. We knew at the time just how catastrophic this would be. In these very pages, I warned that these cuts were cruel, painful and deliberate.
he very goal of Republican leadership, like U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins, was to drive as many people as possible off SNAP so that the government no longer had to worry about pesky little problems like “caring for the hungry” or “ensuring every American’s basic needs were met.” And if that was the goal, then I suppose you have to give them credit—that’s exactly what Rollins and the Trump administration have done.
More than 4 million Americans have had their SNAP benefits ripped away from them in the past year—a fact Rollins then lied was the result of people “climbing the ladder of financial freedom,” while ignoring the truth that not only had their financial circumstances not improved, but that now she had made certain they no longer had access to food.
And you might not even know about it, as much of this crisis has unfolded outside national headlines.
Last summer, the Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill directed the most devastating attacks on Americans’ basic needs programs in generations. The Republican budget cuts targeted a dizzying number of social safety net programs from a wide range of critical areas. Federal assistance programs like healthcare and hunger were slashed to the bone.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) saw cuts of hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade—by far the largest in the program’s history. We knew at the time just how catastrophic this would be. In these very pages, I warned that these cuts were cruel, painful and deliberate.
he very goal of Republican leadership, like U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins, was to drive as many people as possible off SNAP so that the government no longer had to worry about pesky little problems like “caring for the hungry” or “ensuring every American’s basic needs were met.” And if that was the goal, then I suppose you have to give them credit—that’s exactly what Rollins and the Trump administration have done.
More than 4 million Americans have had their SNAP benefits ripped away from them in the past year—a fact Rollins then lied was the result of people “climbing the ladder of financial freedom,” while ignoring the truth that not only had their financial circumstances not improved, but that now she had made certain they no longer had access to food.
https://msmagazine.com/2026/05/22/snap-cuts-trump-republicans-budget-fy-2027/]