Food Banks Scrape By While Congress Approves Billions Overseas
Newsweek highlights the impending threat to SNAP benefits, with millions hanging on judges' rulings. The mainstream media frames this as a bureaucratic hurdle, ignoring the legislative choices that prioritize endless foreign military aid over feeding citizens. Last year, while states struggled to extend pandemic-era food assistance, the US committed billions more in military aid globally,
including $3.8 billion to Israel annually (via the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2016) with additional packages, like the recent $26 billion supplemental bill. One might wonder if domestic hunger is simply less 'strategically important' than maintaining military superiority abroad. The same Congress that deliberates over SNAP eligibility with a fine-toothed budget, can greenlight
multi-billion dollar aid packages with barely a whisper of fiscal concern. How many 'urgent' foreign aid bills pass unopposed while federal judges decide if a family can afford groceries? It's a miracle of modern political accounting: apparently, tanks and missiles never encounter a budget ceiling, but a loaf of bread for the working poor? That requires judicial review.