USDA's Rollins says food stamp funding to dry up in two weeks

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Roll Call

Posted October 16, 2025 at 6:16pm


Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Thursday that the food stamp program will run out of funds in two weeks because of the partial government shutdown, potentially leaving nearly 42 million people without monthly benefits. “We’re going to run out of money in two weeks. So you’re talking about millions and millions of vulnerable families, of hungry families, that are not going to have access to these programs because of this shutdown,” Rollins said outside the White House.

The Agriculture Department later in the day released an Oct. 10 letter to regional SNAP directors directing them to stop work on November benefits.

“Considering the operational issues and constraints that exist in automated systems, and in the interest of preserving maximum flexibility, we are forced to direct States to hold their November issuance files and delay transmission to State EBT [electronic benefit transfer] vendors until further notice. This includes on-going SNAP benefits and daily files,” the letter said.

The Agriculture Department has limited options to find another source of money for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, after the GOP budget reconciliation law earlier this year drained the Commodity Credit Corporation, a possible funding option.

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/10/16/usdas-rollins-says-food-stamp-funding-to-dry-up-in-two-weeks/

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SNAP is under the Farm Bill that the GOP keeps kicking the can on. It's a 5-year appropriations document and they keep extending what should have been the 2023 one.

[Skittles]

1. everyone who can, please donate to your local food bank

I do so regularly.

[calimary]

12. Good idea!

[gordianot]

2. So in what States do you have the most recepoents of food Stamps?

Don't know what you got till its gone!

[Orrex]

4. They'll think once before voting Republican again

Once or not at all. And then they'll vote Republican again.

[gordianot]

9. My Grandfather figured it back in the 1930's.

Five children no work he even though he had an engineering degree, disabled veteran. It took Clarence Cannon and a failed haberdasher from Independence Mo to show him the error of his ways. He was educated and managed to overcome family ties such as cousin Prescott . Passing his Postmasters test helped even though the merit system in that day was thoroughly corrupt. His kids did not starve as well as a few of those Republican cousins.

[kerouac2]

3. Top states with snap

The states with the highest SNAP participation rates as of November 2022 are:

New Mexico (24.3%)
Louisiana (19.5%)
West Virginia (18.2%)
Oklahoma (17.2%)
Oregon (17.0%)
Illinois (16.2%)
Alabama (15.4%)
Massachusetts (15.2%)
Nevada (15.0%)
North Carolina (15.0%)

These are by percentage

By number of people, it would include Texas Florida penn new york

[Farmer-Rick]

8. A lot of red states on that list.

Do you think they are still glad they voted for the pedo Trump?

But not to worry, pedo Trump is funding the Argentina government while he keeps our government shutdown and lets our hungry people and military starve. He is king of the US and we are all lowly serfs and peasants, unless you live in Argentina.

This is his "let them eat cake" moment. Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI would be proud.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. How much.longer could it run with the $20 billion TSF is giving Argentina?

[area51]

6. And yet this govt. can find

$20 billion, & possibly $40 billion, for Argentina.

[calimary]

11. I'd add 40 billion of these:

[IbogaProject]

15. The second 20B for Argentina is private money

But I suspect T-BoneHead had our Gov guarantee it.

[travelingthrulife]

7. As Vought would say, 'You can't reduce the population by 2/3 without breaking

some eggs.'

This will be so ugly.

[ffr]

10. Red State Trump Supporters to Feel Food Stamp Pinch in Two Weeks

There! I fixed the title to an honest headline.

[CTyankee]

13. How will they blame the libruls for it?

[choie]

14. That's easy

they'll say that Schumer and Jeffries are the ones that are keeping the government shutdown.

[CTyankee]

16. I hope they have a good rebuttal all ready to go!

[ananda]

17. So we're about to enter the Let Em Eat Cake phase.

What fun that'll be.