Michael Cohen - Leaders Turn Lives Into The Hunger Games

Today, millions go hungry as SNAP benefits vanish, children and seniors bear the cost, and political leaders boast false triumphs, leaving America’s most vulnerable without food or dignity.

Today is the day the defunding of the SNAP program begins. Millions of Americans will wake up without the safety net that allows them to put food on the table, and the consequences will be immediate and devastating. Hunger isn’t a distant problem; it is here, now, in kitchens and pantries across the country. I have told my story of being deprived of food for the first three days following my unconstitutional remand back to prison. I understand hunger. I know it. I’ve felt it. That is why the thought of millions going without food because of political games feels not just wrong—it feels unconscionable.

The administration’s decision to withhold SNAP funding during the shutdown exposes a deep moral failure. More than 40 million Americans depend on these benefits, including 17 million children and over 10 million elderly citizens. For them, hunger is not hypothetical; it is immediate and devastating, a reality shaped by choices made in Washington that prioritize politics over human life.

Let that sink in: the richest country in the history of the earth has allowed its people to go hungry. Not by accident. Not by misfortune. But by conscious decisions driven by ego and ideology.

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