SNAP benefits should not be used to score political points. Food insecurity is on the line | Opinion
Jaqueline Benitez pushes her cart down an aisle as she shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Benitez, 21, who works as a preschool teacher, depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, and starting in March she expects a significant cut, perhaps half, of the $250 in food benefits she has received since 2020.
Meanwhile, an estimated 10.2% of Americans face food insecurity, unsure of how they will put food on the table each day. They live in every congressional district in the country. The vast majority are working people in households with children and/or seniors. It is shameful that they would become a bargaining chip to politics.
Yet Granger and at least six other Texas representatives in Congress seem not to care that their own constituents would suffer from further SNAP cuts. Nearly 4 million Texas residents rely on SNAP each month, and the expiration of SNAP pandemic boosts alone will mean $300 million in cuts, affecting Texans in urban and rural areas alike.
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