Fight back to save ‘SNAP food benefits program for the poor’

Fight back to save ‘SNAP food benefits program for the poor’

Trump’s ‘scorched earth policy’ plans to steal food from millions of more poor people

By Lynda Carson - November 12, 2026

In response to the ‘blue wave’ that demolished Trump’s MAGA movement, on Veterans Day (yesterday), veterans benefits were shredded by the Trump regime, and a day or two earlier the Trump regime published notice of proposed major cuts to the SNAP food benefits program that will starve 6.3 million people in America.

That’s right. The fascist Republicans made the largest cut to veteran benefits in history, on veterans day, by cutting $57 billion from the disability benefits of future veterans and nearly tripling VA’s streamlined refinancing fee.

Additionally, the brutal convicted felon President Donald J. Trump has weaponized the SNAP food benefits program to punish and starve 6.3 million poor people in America, who are residing in 3.2 million households.

Recently, I reported that https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/17/18888612.php “More than an astounding 1.2 million children have lost their SNAP food benefits from the federal government and the Department of Agriculture since last July. Children are starving in America.” ‘Now the brutal cruel Trump regime wants to take food from an additional 6.3 million people, mostly women and children’.

Indeed. The Trump regime, and Stephen Alexander Vaden, of the Department of Agriculture, proposes to starve more women and children in America! This is a major brutal attack against women and children by the Trump regime that can not be ignored, and must be stopped.

Fight back to save the SNAP food benefits program for the poor!

A few recent headlines below…

Nearly 1 in 5 food stamp recipients could lose benefits under Trump proposal.

Millions of Low-Income Children Are Losing Both Medicaid/CHIP Coverage and SNAP Benefits! 

Trump Administration Moves to Cut Food Stamps for 6.3 Million Americans, Threatening Children's School Meals.

Nevada braces for more SNAP cuts proposed by Trump administration.

Trump administration proposes rule that could cut SNAP for millions, including North Central Washington residents.

Trump’s proposed SNAP cuts could further limit which kids get free school lunches.

A proposed USDA rule could cut SNAP access for 6.3 million people and affect automatic free school meal eligibility.

“Heartless and cruel”: Trump moves to cut crucial aid for 6.3 million Americans.

Trump Administration Seeks to Strip 6.3 Million More People of SNAP Food Aid.

That’s right! Fight back to save the SNAP food benefits program for the poor!

E-Mail your comments to oppose the massive cuts planned for the SNAP food benefits program. Send your comments to: sm.fn.snappdbrules [at] usda.gov . Include Docket ID Number [FNA-2026-0661], “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Reforming Categorical Eligibility” in the subject line of the message.

If the new policy proposal from the convicted felon President Donald J. Trump’s “Department of Agriculture”, Food and Nutrition Administration becomes law, the SNAP (food program) benefits will be cut by $50.82 billion, resulting in 6.3 million individuals in 3.2 million households that will lose their SNAP benefits entirely.

According to the Trump administration’s regulatory impact analysis of the proposed rule:

• 6.3 million individuals in 3.2 million households will lose their SNAP benefits entirely.

◦ The 3.2 million families impacted make up 17 percent of SNAP households.


• SNAP benefits will be cut by $50.82 billion.

◦ Federal spending on benefits will be cut by $44.65 billion over 5 years (FY2027-FY2031), and state spending on benefits will be cut by $6.17 billion.



• SNAP administrative expenses will increase by $1.24 billion.

◦ Federal spending on administrative expenses will increase by $309.5 million over five years.

◦ State spending on administrative costs will increase by $928.5 million.



• Increased burden on participants is estimated to be approximately $71.7 million over five years.

Because SNAP participation is often used to streamline eligibility for basic needs programs, the proposed rule's effects reach beyond the program.


• 1.78 million children would no longer be categorically eligible for school meals. Of those children:

◦ 97 percent would likely remain eligible but need to go through an onerous paperwork process to maintain eligibility.

◦ 93,000 children would be shifted from free to reduced-price school meals.

◦ 28,000 children would lose free school meals entirely and have to pay full price.



• 42,000 children will no longer receive Summer EBT (“Sun Bucks”) beginning in the summer of 2029.

◦ An estimated 13,000 of these children would lose benefits they qualify for due to administrative burden (i.e., not applying for SEBT, even though they remain eligible).



• 5,500 women, infants and children would be kicked off the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).


The number of states opting in to broad-based categorical eligibility has increased steadily each year because of its positive impacts on participants and program administration. Currently, 46 states, Republican and Democratic alike, opt to use BBCE.

Since the implementation of Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, an estimated 5.5 million Americans have already been kicked off SNAP, including around 2 million children.

That’s right. The new policy proposal is called, ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Reforming Categorical Eligibility’. It was posted in the Federal Register. [FR Doc. 2026-22936 Filed: 11/9/2026 8:45 am; Publication Date: 11/10/2026], and was signed by Stephen A. Vaden, Deputy Secretary.

Who is Stephen Alexander Vaden, the villain who signed the proposal to starve America’s women and children?

He is a very wealthy man proposing to steal the food from the poor. Stephen Alexander Vaden, was picked to be the USDA Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture in June, 2025, according to an August 11, 2026, financial disclosure form.

Additionally, Stephen Alexander Vaden, reportedly was a resident at 1204 Short Street, Union City, TN, in 2018, and is a Republican, according to FEC records. Presently, reportedly, Stephen Vaden's birthday is 05/14/1982, and he is 44 years old. Stephen's current home address reportedly is 501 Holland Lane Unit 1205, Alexandria, VA 22314. Latest phone numbers include (731) 885-1740 and (571) 319-563.

Additionally in 2019, Vaden was accused of disenfranchising voters. Reportedly https://afj.org/article/stephen-vaden-wont-be-a-fair-minded-judge/ , “On October 17, 2019, President Trump nominated Stephen A. Vaden to be a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade. If confirmed, he will fill the seat of Delissa A. Ridgway, a Clinton appointee. Alliance for Justice opposes Vaden’s confirmation. Vaden’s record, marked by disenfranchising voters, demoralizing workers, and defending attacks on civil liberties, demonstrates he will be a hyper-partisan, biased jurist, not a fair-minded judge.”

That’s right. “Among Democrats who were particularly tough on Stephen Vaden at his Agriculture Committee hearing was Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who grilled Vaden on his work crafting a voter identification law in North Carolina that a federal court said targeted African-Americans "with almost surgical precision.”

Lynda Carson may be reached at newzland2 [at] gmail.com

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