NBC News should be reporting on Senate Democrats voting 13 times to keep the government closed, but instead, they went with the personal touch, speaking to 18 SNAP recipients about the "unthinkable tradeoffs" they're going to have to make if they don't get government assistance. We're guessing they weren't hard to find, as more than 40 million people in the U.S. are receiving SNAP benefits.
NBC News spoke with 18 SNAP recipients who spent the week contemplating once unthinkable tradeoffs to put food on their tables. https://t.co/t0NzrmqW5D
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2025
Aria Bendix, Shannon Pettypiece, and Bracey Harris report for NBC News:
In Wisconsin, Carmen Hernandez told her four children that they may need to get by on just beans and tortillas. In Mississippi, Valerie Buck collected donations from a food pantry to feed her family of 10. In Indiana, Matthew Corbett, who has $1.04 left in his SNAP account, was prepared to sell his TV for food money.
“Why do I have to pick between paying for day care or paying for a meal for my daughter?” said Lucia Graves, a single mother in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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In Lolita Arnold’s pantry, the main contents are a can of beef, one package of stew, a box of Corn Flakes cereal, a bag of dried lentils and some grapes. That was the result of an hourslong food pantry line at a church in Huntington, West Virginia, earlier this week.
Breakfast on Thursday for Arnold, 60, was a cup of coffee and a banana, dinner was mashed potatoes with canned gravy.
“That’s going to have to hold me until the next day, then I’ll go from there,” she said.
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Good news … word on the street is that Democrats are waiting to cave until after the election on Tuesday.
Is one of those unthinkable tradeoffs getting a job?
— Anonymous (@Exekute) November 1, 2025
Great news, thanks for the update
— MAGAKingReturns (@nation_based) November 1, 2025
Do a story on the illegals on SNAP.
— Ranse213 (@odannyt) November 1, 2025
How many are obese? On my dime…
— Dad Knows Best (@dadfocused) November 1, 2025
Has money for tons of tattoos. Does not have money for food.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) November 1, 2025
Many such cases https://t.co/wBaIcqsOiM pic.twitter.com/6tr9EndEEY
If you are able bodied and have no kids, you should be given a weekly ration of MREs. Want to eat better go get a job.
— Penguin Wrangler (@PenWrangler) November 1, 2025
Interesting article. Aren’t many of us not on food stamps trying to feed our family, and get second job to do so?
— Yulia Goldshteyn (@GoldshteynYulia) November 1, 2025
Having 10 kids and expecting the government to pay for them is wild.
— Rose of Sharon Mayer (@RozeRage) November 1, 2025
The drama.
— Ann Dagonowski (@AnnDagonowski) November 1, 2025
— Fweedom🇺🇸 (@Fweedom5) November 1, 2025
Has nine kids. Works part time at McDonalds.
— John Adams (@JhnAdmz) November 1, 2025
Expects everyone else to pay for the mistakes that were made.
Expecting her ninth child?
— SCA (@redfoliot) November 1, 2025
They really need to find better spokespeople for snap sympathy than these overweight women.
— The Alchemist (@a1ch3mista) November 1, 2025
Maybe they should all call Sen. Chuck Schumer's office and tell him to reopen the government.
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