We Have A Hostage Situation Here

The Republicans are using food as a weapon to end the shutdown! They are willing to starve millions of people just to get their way politically!

Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps

Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.

The New Republic

Edith Olmsted

October 30, 2025

House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.

CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November. The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.

“Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people’s paychecks, their livelihoods,” Johnson said. “And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.”

It seems clear that Democrats aren’t the ones playing games with people’s livelihoods, but instead it is Republicans who are holding SNAP benefits hostage from 42 million Americans in order to make the opposition bend. And SNAP is a hostage Republicans are more than willing to kill—they’ve already voted to gut nearly $300 billion from the program through 2034.

We are all pawns to the Republicans to be played on a chessboard. Whether it the sick and disabled, whether it is for the hungry,  whether it is for the homeless, whether it is us the LGBTQ+ community, we are all pieces to be played on in their game of politics! The Republicans are no longer "the party of the people" they are a party of a cult leader. The Republicans are using starvation as a weapon to force the Democrats to end their demands for health insurance to be reinstated!

Instead, the Trump administration has set up a false dilemma, asserting that the government can’t continue to fund SNAP benefits without draining funds from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which is currently being paid for by tariff money. Meanwhile, Trump had no problem moving funds to pay for military service members’ paychecks.

What the Democrats are saying...

With November 1st right around the corner and millions of Americans’ health care and food assistance on the chopping block, Trump STILL refuses to join Democrats on a common-sense proposal that reopens the government and lowers health care costs. Instead, he has worked to send a $40 billion bailout to Argentina, demanded $230 million in taxpayer funds as payment for his criminal investigations, demolished the East Wing, and hosted his billionaire friends at the White House for his $350 million ballroom remodel. It’s clear who Trump works for, and it’s not the American people.

All the Democrats are asking for is the reinstatement of funding for the Affordable Care Act!

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Here is something to think about: The Republicans say they are "Pro-Life" but they stopped SNAP and people are starving! They cut WIC and babies are starving! They cut housing assistance and people are freezing! They cut funding to Head Start, so that the children will always be in poverty!