Of Course The Children Are Hungry

Speaker Johnson and the GOP's Appetite for Cruelty is on Full Display in Every American School Cafeteria

I found myself walking along the bike path in the Lehigh Valley, and I couldn’t stop thinking about what was coming. We all knew it was coming, really. The moment the Republicans took SNAP. It’s what they seem to do now—find the most vulnerable, the ones with the least power to fight back, and make them pay. Children. The elderly. The disabled. The people who can’t mount lobbying campaigns or write big checks to political action committees. It’s gutless, and it’s cruel, and it’s exactly who they are.

This is America in 2025, and the Republican Party—that grand old institution that once at least pretended to care about governing—has decided that its latest crusade involves threatening to eliminate SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans. Not because the country is broke, mind you. We’ve got plenty of money for tax cuts that predominantly benefit billionaires, plenty for defense contractors posting record profits, plenty for corporate subsidies that amount to billions. But food for hungry…