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My Customers (SNAP) and My Subsidies (USDA) Are Both Gone
I'm a farmer who sells at the local farmers market. I have two types of customers: middle-class folks with cash, and low-income families using SNAP (EBT cards). SNAP accounts for 40% of my weekend revenue. The first week of November, they all vanished. The EBT cards had no money. At the exact same time, the farm loan I need from the USDA to buy seeds for next season is frozen. And the crop reports from the USDA that I need to plan my harvest? Publication suspended. This is the policy absurdity: The government (USDA) is supposed to pay me (the farmer) to grow the food, and pay the poor (SNAP users) to buy my food. Now the government is shut down, and both ends of that deal are broken. I'm the guy in the middle getting crushed. #Farmer #USDA #SNAPShutdown
2025-11-07
Wilson
11-07
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Frank
They were stealing half of your stuff anyway😆
11-07
Murray, KY
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Tedge
lol you trusted the government? And buy seeds? You know, the plants will produce their own seeds. You don’t need to lease your corn.
11-07
Pendleton, SC
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Amy McDevitt
snap has been FULLY funded for November
11-07
Olympia, WA
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Fred Kaiser
communists are blocking the continuing resolution they voted for under Biden. they are holding you hostage to try to get Healthcare for illegals
11-08
Seattle, WA
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Elaine Grehn
well thank your president Donald Trump for that one and then he's paying $40 billion to the country that is now producing all the soybeans all because he wanted his dictator buddy back in office I don't know I'll make snow sense to me people are starving crops around
11-07
Danbury, CT
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Janice Michael
We need to have love and charity in our country or it is doomed spiritually and mortally! Learn from your scriptures, don’t use them for political purposes!
11-07
Gas City, IN
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Amah Dee
Not all subsidies are in limbo. ONLY the extra covid era subsidies that were already extended via the inflation reduction act. The dims have know these were set to expire , they voted on this in the inflation reduction act (Biden’s budget). The normal subsidies are not in question.
11-07
Bremerton, WA
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Sher l
You can think the Democrats for the shutdown of the government and snap not being given to its recipients
11-07
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