US Congress 'Worries' About SNAP, Funds Overseas Conflicts
While Americans agonize over the staggered payment schedule for November SNAP benefits, meticulously dissected by Newsweek, Congress easily passes massive aid packages to other nations. The same legislative process that can allocate $14 billion in military aid to Israel in record time (as seen with HR 815 this year, which passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support and was signed into
law), somehow requires struggling families to navigate complex payment schedules for basic food security. It appears the speed of legislative action is inversely proportional to the immediacy of domestic need. One might wonder if the concern for efficiency only surfaces when the beneficiaries are defense contractors and foreign militaries, rather than hungry American citizens. (Perhaps they need
better lobbyists.)