Food Banks Bust as Biden Sends Billions to Overseas Conflicts
The story focuses on states heroically 'covering' SNAP benefits (which is their job, by the way), but conveniently glosses over why this 'lapse' occurs. It's almost as if multi-billion dollar aid packages to foreign conflicts, like the $14 billion recently approved for Israel (HR 815, 2023) or the $61 billion for Ukraine, have absolutely no bearing on domestic spending priorities—or the lack
thereof. One might even wonder what the 'funding lapse' looks like for Lockheed Martin or Raytheon executives. So, while families back home worry about their next meal, Washington ensures the weapons industry has theirs, generously funded by the very taxpayers whose food stamps are now a 'state problem.' It appears American lives and livelihoods are just inconvenient externalities in the grand
strategy of geopolitical influence, particularly when AIPAC has poured over $2.3 million into congressional campaigns in 2022 and 2024 to ensure the 'right' votes. (OpenSecrets.org).