No SNAP benefit for November in Texas.

[Luz]

I just read that the snap benefit for texas will not happen in November. I wasn't sure, so I went to the website. Here's what it says
"SNAP benefits for November will not be issued if the federal government shutdown continues past Oct. 27. HHSC will issue SNAP benefits as soon as it receives new federal guidance".
Honestly, as a disabled senior citizen that relies on snap, this has my stomach in all sorts of knots. I just can't take the cruelty much longer and I can't be the only one, either.

[Squaredeal]

1. I knew other GIs, and was myself, who volunteered for duty in Vietnam.

Rather than sit at an Army post in that friggen, desolate state. My opinion of Texas hasn’t improved since then. Thank god for the Northeast US.

[Ilsa]

2. Texas has how many billions set aside for emergencies?

I guess not having enough to eat is only an emergency for billionaires.

They need to figure out a way to get SNAP benefits paid.

I'm so glad I left Texas.

[Jacson6]

3. I hear you. I think the dem senators should vote to renew the CR bill. n/t

[walkingman]

4. They will if the GOP will restore healthcare benefits for those on ACA. Until then, I hope not.

[Jacson6]

5. Tell that to single moms, disabled and elderly who won't have enough money for food in nov. n/t

[mountain grammy]

6. do you understand that if Dem Senators vote for the CR

and don't hold the line, ALL programs for people who need them will disappear. That's what he means by "Democrat programs" SNAP, Medicaid, etc, gone!

The CR won't save anything unless republicans are forced to save them.

[walkingman]

7. States control SNAP benefits, not the Feds - I think this "Holier-than-thou" Texas State government

is doing this intentionally. Mark my words...Texas government will fund the benefits and then claim they have come to your rescue in order to get votes going forward. They play this the same way Trump does (Wheels is mini-trump) create a problem and then claim to solve it. This will continue until Texas voters wake up and realize they are voting against their own interests.

edited to add - Each state manages its own program and has the ability to stop it if it chooses, but this action does not affect the national program or other state programs.

[highplainsdem]

10. The USDA has officially told the states not to issue those benefits next month if the shutdown continues.

This is not a decision made in Texas. Though the GOP there is probably cheering it.

Editing to add one of the news stories about this:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/snap-food-stamps-november-government-shutdown

-snip-

The food stamp program will run out of money in two weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

-snip-

Rollins’ comments came a week after the US Department of Agriculture told states that there is not enough money to pay full food stamp benefits in November if the lapse in federal funding continues. The agency asked states to hold off on November payments until further notice.

-snip-

[Igel]

11. SNAP funds are issued by the feds.

States get the money well before the start of the next month. They hand out the money. Full stop.

If the feds don't pay, states don't get the money to pay out. But the Oct. funds were distributed a week or so before Oct. 1 and the start of the 'shut down'.

However, states do have the option of authorizing state funds to cover SNAP (or to increase benefits). How much that ability to authorize distribution of state funds to cover SNAP rather depends on what authority the state constitution and legislature have granted--or where there's wiggle room for the governor to appropriate or "borrow" with a nice IOU to repay the tapped money bucket. We both hate and love that wiggle room, depending on whose ox is gored and whose ox is fed.

I live in TX. I can't stand the state constitution, the sprawling, bloated thing, a hodge-podge of a patchwork quilt. A lot of what most states call "statutes" are constitutional articles in the Lone Star State. Still, I honestly don't know if the executive in TX has this kind of authority; I've only lived here for more than 20 years.

I think I recall seeing other states' legislatures specifically authorize this kind of funding. Or maybe that's "state's legislature".

WIC is different. It's entirely federal.

[walkingman]

14. I've lived here most of my adult life and the last 30 have been a shitshow.

I simply do not trust anything Abbott does nor the State Legislature.

Speaking of the Texas State Constitution...remember we had a constitutional convention in the early 70's to simplify it and the voters rejected it. So we still operate under the original 1876 one. When I was transferred to TX in 1974 it was a great place. Since 1994, after "W" was elected governor it has been a downhill slide. I don't think I will live to see it change and the nation as a whole is not much better. What a legacy we leave our children.

[walkingman]

12. I guess I'm showing my cynicism about Texas. I do not trust anything this state does...nothing.

[highplainsdem]

13. I'd thought it might be Texas GOP cruelty, too, till I did some googling.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. Then tell that to the Republicans who are in complete control of the federal government.

It is entirely within the Republican Party's power to end the shutdown today if they wanted to.

But this is the same Republican Party that doesn't believe in government and severely slashed services and public servants when they seized power earlier this year, so it's not surprised we have yet another Republican-inflicted government shutdown...

[pecosbob]

8. Let them eat dirt. Good idea if you want the peasants to get out their torches and pitchforks.

I think that is what they want...anarchy.

[LoisB]

9. This is just cruelty for cruelty's sake.