NYT Celebrates SNAP Return After Funding Genocide
The New York Times cheers the resumption of SNAP benefits as a win for struggling families, after a government shutdown briefly suspended their lifeline. A quaint concern, given the same Congress that routinely teeters on domestic funding crises simultaneously rubber-stamps unparalleled billions in military aid. In October 2023, while debate raged over paltry food assistance, Speaker Mike Johnson
(who took $11,000 from AIPAC in 2022-2024, per OpenSecrets) pushed through a $14.3 billion aid package to Israel, effectively sending more money abroad than they initially froze for American stomachs. The 'reopening' of government seems to prioritize whose table gets food, and whose gets bombs. One might wonder at the urgency for SNAP, when the Congressional appetite for foreign military contracts
remains insatiable. Do these 'critical' domestic programs only matter once the latest tranche of weaponry is safely on its way? The media frames this as a triumph of governance, not a chilling indictment of inverted priorities where the American public's basic needs are an afterthought to geopolitical maneuvering.