Whoa, SNAP

The Schumer Shutdown is paying unexpected benefits for Republicans every day that it goes along – I guess we’re up to fourteen ‘NAYS’ from Democrats on reopening so far.

Most importantly, it has exposed not only the leaders of the party, but damn near every last footsoldier senator and congressman as complete frauds, willing to sacrifice their formerly prized and loyal constituencies for their newest one – illegal immigrants.

Only a teensy handful of senators have been adult enough to cross over and vote for the clean Continuing Resolution that is the simple solution to all of this. And I’ve actually heard the voice of only a single Democratic senator speaking out against his party’s ridiculous, inexcusable, and inordinately cruel stance.

Of course, it’s Fetterman.

🚨 WOW! Sen. John Fetterman is causing HUGE ISSUES for Chuck Schumer today, telling CNN the Democrats OWN the shutdown and resulting suffering of Americans

“I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown.”

“It’s deeply deeply distressing to know that 42 million… pic.twitter.com/vwtRDC7z79

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 2, 2025

…”I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown.” 

“It’s deeply deeply distressing to know that 42 million Americans are going to lose their snap benefits. And now that’s one of the big reasons why I refuse to shutting our government down.” 

This isn’t allowed in the Democrat Party. They will primary Fetterman in 2028.

And, likewise, off with his head, right?

This is your brain on Democrat.

WE WANT EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY

🚨WARREN: “We want healthcare for everybody.” pic.twitter.com/Cv1k5N8WHo

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) November 3, 2025

The Schumer Shutdown is allowing the public to feast their eyes on the roadkill policies that are the dirty, matted underbelly of the Democrat Party.

One fact that came to light as this stretched into the fourth week, and the deadline for funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) approached is just how many people are receiving SNAP benefits – 42M people in a country of 340M get a taxpayer handout for food assistance every month. That’s one in every eight people!

Which is astonishing and, frankly, ridiculous and shameful at the same time.

There’s no way in hell the number should be that high. 

Fraud or not, there’s something structurally broken when 40+ million recipients get SNAP

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 2, 2025

But when you have folks that have been in the system for decades, who then are raising people in the system, it sort of becomes self-sustaining in that aspect, doesn’t it?

THIRTY YEARS

“When I heard, ‘Zero dollars,’ my chest went into my throat.”

New Mexico woman on food stamps for 30 years says SNAP freeze is “detrimental to my life.” pic.twitter.com/VFSn9LJcXM

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2025

And we’ve all seen the videos of SNAP recipients prancing down the aisles in stores, smirking and twerking as they throw whatever garbage food or luxury items in their carts with a ‘Hahhaha…my money and nothing you can do about it’ attitude, full well knowing it once belonged to the viewers they’re taunting as tax dollars.

Or the starving SNAP beneficiaries who don’t know where their next meal is coming from, yet have thousands of dollars in fresh tattoos.

Ah yes, the fully-tatted, salon-fresh hair coloring manicured “struggling” food-stamp recipient… living that…
I’m totally broke but somehow still at the salon twice a month lifestyle.🤣 pic.twitter.com/HlZHrhTY3E

— 🇺🇸Lady Vet (@CoVet_81) November 3, 2025

Of course, there are people who need help, and that’s what this is meant to do. Be a leg up, not a lifestyle.

It’s hard enough making sure deserving Americans get what help they need when and for as long as they truly need it.

But what Democrats have shown the world is that the same illegals they’re stripping affordable healthcare away from Americans for, they are also willing to go to the mat to give benefits for sustenance that should only be for Americans.

When Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins took office, she sent letters to every single governor stating that SNAP benefits were for American citizens only. And she wanted the data from their states on how the monies already sent had been spent, as SNAP participation under the Biden administration had increased an unholy forty percent. Only twenty-nine states have answered in the intervening months, but with that data, they’ve already moved over 700,000 ineligible SNAP recipients off the lists.

…“There’s been a lot of miscommunication out there on the program, but this is one of the first things we did when I walked in. Day One of USDA, February 13th, is we sent letters to every governor in America being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP. Zero, zero, zero,” Rollins said. “We asked every state for the first time in history — and this was in February — to send us their data and let us, with DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] and a war room, actually start going through this data to better understand how this explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden. We increased almost 40% on this program in just a couple of years under the Biden administration.”

“And since we have asked for that data, 29 states have complied. Of course, almost all the red states, couple blue states, too. But in that data — and I haven’t talked about this yet, publicly — in that data we have found — we studied about $100 billion in spend— we have found thousands and thousands of illegal use of the [Electronic Benefit Transfer] EBT card,” Rollins added. “We have been moving people off of SNAP. We’ve got almost 700,000 people, I think, we’ve moved off just since the president took office. We’ve arrested about 118 people. So this has been ongoing.”

Illegals accused of stealing more than $150,000 in SNAP benefits in Ohio

Ohio has reported to losing $17M in SNAP benefits from fraud since 2023.

Biden’s invaders are stealing taxpayer funded resources from Americans pic.twitter.com/PSwsNU77Bp

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 27, 2025

As of last Tuesday, before the deadline, SURPRISE!

Gavin Newsom and his group of blue-state governors, who have yet to provide their data to the department, filed a lawsuit against the Trump USDA to force the agency to pay SNAP benefits despite the government shutdown.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that the state filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for alleged “unlawful refusal” of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

On Wednesday, the Democratic governor deployed the state’s National Guard to support food banks in November, as anticipated delays to federal food assistance had been expected due to the ongoing government shutdown. According to the lawsuit, California is joined by 20 other states, including Arizona and Massachusetts, arguing the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has illegally refused to fund SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown, “despite possessing funds to support SNAP in November.

Which states have the largest illegal populations that are supported with expanded and basically illegal benefits funded circuitously by the American taxpayer?

WE HAVE THE WINNERS

The money numbers are staggering.

Wait. How can we have grown SNAP recipient population by 1.5M (36%) from 2020 to 2025 in California but grew SNAP spending by almost 100% from 8.8B to 15B?
This is another evidence that few million freeloaders are in the mix which is not being counted. Exactly the reason… pic.twitter.com/atVU9lksjO

— Neil Mehta 🇺🇸🇮🇳 (@ndmehta19) November 3, 2025

The unfortunate thing for Democrats is that, without the normal noise of government going on around us, people have time to take a look at the specific things that are being fought over.

They vote, they count in the census, and YES, they receive SNAP benefits and MEDICAID.

MILLIONS. pic.twitter.com/HuplqgVid1

— Viral Architect 🎵⚡ (@BigMKilo) November 3, 2025

Just staggering numbers.

The effect on food and welfare support to the poor in the government shutdown has revealed that the noncitizen and illegal immigrant community has been benefiting from the taxpayer-funded programs more than American citizens — by far.

According to newly analyzed Census Bureau data, nearly half of the immigrant community taps into the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which was suspended in some states due to the shutdown.

An analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies shared with Secrets Monday found that 47% of noncitizen households with children under 6 use the programs. For comparison, 31% of American citizen households use SNAP and WIC.

What’s more, added the center, “non-citizen households account for nearly one in five of all households with young children receiving WIC or SNAP.”

It is the latest evidence that the nation’s estimated 14 million illegal immigrants are costly to the country and not just because of border control expenses. Once in the country, the costs of feeding, clothing, housing, and educating the migrants add up fast.

But, I thought Dems said illegals didn’t have access to SNAP/WIC?? #SchumerShutdown https://t.co/Hge0CNORRs

— Whiskey Drinking Vet! (@DadBod_72) November 3, 2025

The gaslighting about illegals ‘never receiving SNAP benefits’ is easily disproven, too. From looking at individual state programs in these blue states, and following the funding back…

…Federal law under the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) bars most non-citizens who are not “qualified immigrants” from receiving federally funded welfare benefits. This includes Medicaid (except for emergencies), Medicare, and SNAP. Undocumented cannot enroll in these programs through the standard channels; but “cannot enroll” is not the same as “does not enroll”(helpful government social agencies’ turning a blind eye) – or “do not benefit” (directly or indirectly through other government largesse). Over time, state and local governments have filled the gaps. Federal reimbursements through indirect programs and hospital subsidies blur fiscal boundaries.

…A migrant family of four in Massachusetts state shelters gets $1,900/month tax-free; while SNAP (for similar U.S.-citizen family) maxes at $973. Her administration upgrades migrants from hotels to apartments with no work requirement and no questions asked. Massachusetts’ funding for illegals totaled $1 billion (FY24)— more than the state spends on its own disabled, yet Governor Maura Healey’s (when SNAP delays loomed) claimed, “(Trump) is forcing millions… into hunger”.

…to congressional members slipping up and admitting as much while trying to advocate and generate sympathy for their illegal residents.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal accidentally admits illegals receive taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits:

“Yesterday, I was at a food bank in my district talking about SNAP cuts… people are not showing up because they’re afraid… It’s undocumented immigrants.”

Why are illegals in your district… pic.twitter.com/AVY5VcmOKg

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 17, 2025

Rollins is using the pause to dig in and wants to ‘take the program back to its original intention. To help those in our communities who are really needy…’

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the whole SNAP program needs to be reformed.

It needs to get the DOGE treatment.pic.twitter.com/z220ZRszXR

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 31, 2025

The entire program needs a gutjob, but the illegals have to go first. And you know what happens when that happens?

The illegals literally go. They leave.

The handouts stop, and they’re gone.

Once that happens, Rollins can start shifting the approved purchase list back to sustenance foodstuffs, instead of soda, chips, and snack cakes – like it used to be.

Someone wants brownies, SNAP will buy you everything but the chocolate to make them.

The folks who will be most pissed about it can thank their Democrat representative for bringing it to the country’s attention.

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