1. United States
2. N.C.
3. Letter

I'm writing to ask that you pressure Trump to use USDA contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing to the 3.4 million people that receive benefits in our state. Starving people to score political points during a government shutdown is cruel and causes needless suffering. This is not business as usual! Hunger as governance has always been America’s shadow constitution. Every “debate” about SNAP cuts, work requirements, or so-called waste is theater staged to keep poor and working-class people desperate. Cutting food assistance has always been a moral test disguised as economics. The GOP likes to frame it as “personal responsibility,” but it’s really about enforcing hierarchy by punishing the poor for existing, especially Black, brown, and single-mother households cast as “undeserving.” The same lawmakers who shovel billions to corporations clutch their pearls over a $6.20 daily benefit that keeps a child from going to bed hungry. Stop the political theater, agree to a bipartisan budget that protects healthcare and food benefits for millions of working families!