Trump Cuts HIT at WORST TIME…

NextWave News
NextWave News
Oct 26, 2026

Five and a half million people in the U.S. have lost SNAP food assistance since the 2025 reconciliation law passed. About two million are children. The law never targeted them. The White House calls it lifting people off food stamps, and the room cheered. Today on ELLA: Black and Brown Women Disruptors in Healthcare and Beyond, Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan explain what hunger does to the body. Wounds that won't close. Bones that won't knit. Blood sugar that crashes at the end of the month, when benefits run out. Seniors forced to choose between the pill and the plate. They show why the losses are running far ahead of what the Congressional Budget Office predicted. A state cost shift is pushing SNAP offices to say no. The same law found about $75 billion for ICE while cutting about $186 billion from groceries. They also go back to 1967. That year a young Black lawyer named Marian Wright told the Senate that children in the Mississippi Delta were starving, and made senators come and see for themselves. Early voting is opening. Election Day is November 3. Staying home has a cost.