10/24/2025
Fund Food Stamps, not Big Tech, Oil & Gas, and War Corporations
Trump and Landry are threatening to cut food stamps for 800,000 Louisianans, the majority of whom are seniors and children. There is no lack of funds, as they claim. They are using the excuse of the government shutdown to hold hungry families hostage. Their goal is to cut health coverage for 22 million people.
Orleans Parish already has the highest rate of senior hunger in the US. As the holidays approach, tables will be bare. Grants for pantries and federal funds for school lunches have already been cut.
As Trump threatens to withhold SNAP funds, $1 trillion is being handed over to the war-profiteering Pentagon and $107 billion to DHS and ICE to attack our immigrant brothers and sisters. Trump is taking food out of our children’s mouths as he gives the ultra-rich $3.4 trillion in tax cuts. Both the federal and Louisiana governments are giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to subsidize AI, carbon capture, oil and gas companies, LNG ports, and cryptocurrency scams that enrich the Trump family.
As we struggle to feed our families, Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA coverage are all being cut. 1,000,000 people in our state are losing health coverage totally or partially as costs soar.
Cutting SNAP hurts the entire community economically. People will be unable to pay rent, utilities, or for medicine. Food production, transport, and grocery workers will face cuts and layoffs. For every SNAP dollar spent, $1.50 goes into the economy.
Real security is meeting people’s needs, not having troops in our streets. Our tax dollars should be used to expand healthcare access and food aid to immigrants, not to attack them.
Fund food, healthcare, good schools, child and elder care, higher wages, and jobs—not prison and war profiteers.