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“Food is A Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance
by Amy Goodman
DemocracyNow
November 12, 2025
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12 ... transcript



"The Painful Truth about Hunger in America”

The government shutdown has brought attention to food insecurity in the United States, as it disrupted the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 42 million people across the country. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program going during the shutdown, because the Trump administration initially chose not to use those funds. “42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health,” says Mariana Chilton, child hunger expert. “It’s deeply concerning.”

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman.

We turn to how the shutdown’s brought attention to food insecurity and hunger in the United States. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court extended a short-term stay that allows the Trump administration to withhold full food assistance benefits under SNAP, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, until Thursday at midnight in anticipation of the end of the shutdown.

SNAP helps nearly 42 million people to eat and also to feed their children each month. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program funded during shutdown because the Trump administration chose not to use those funds and resisted a court order to do so.

The USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency that runs the program, told states to deliver just 65% of benefits and claw back any payments beyond that. Some states have chosen to fully fund benefits in their states. The Supreme Court said withholding some funding is permissible while legal battles continue in lower courts. SNAP benefits break down to a maximum of about $10 a day per person.

At St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, patients waited in line for 45 minutes to receive assistance. Many expressed frustration with President Trump. This is 11-year-old Sincere Miller, who’s waiting with his grandmother.

SINCERE MILLER: Trump, why are you starving the kids? I’m – I’m hungry, and we have to get boxes from the food bank.

AMY GOODMAN: For more on SNAP and hunger, we’re joined by Mariana Chilton, Professor of Practice in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, nationally recognized leader on child hunger in America, author of The Painful Truth About Hunger in America. She joins us from Sunderland, Massachusetts.

We only have a few minutes, Professor Chilton. If you can explain what is happening now, and what the Supreme Court decided and what exactly the Trump administration is doing in saying if states make up for what the federal government is not giving to hungry people, they now have to claw that money and support back from poor people.

MARIANA CHILTON: That’s an outrageous claim. What’s been happening over the past weeks has been unconscionable, and in the past week, there have been four different judge assessments about what should be done with SNAP. All of this chaos and confusion was completely avoidable and is against the law. SNAP benefits are an entitlement, and the funds are there, especially in the case of a government shutdown. So, all of this was avoidable.

The Trump administration continues to break the law. The fact that there’s a stay until Thursday night while Congress decides whether they want to come back to work or not is – the fact that they’re waiting, I can understand, they’re trying to reduce the amount of confusion. 19 states, including Washington D.C., have released full SNAP benefits to their constituents.

Others have released some partial funds. It’s hard to know quite what’s happening. What is very clear that is happening is that 42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health and wellbeing and for good school performance.

So, it’s deeply concerning. And what it shows is how precarious the American people truly are. Only 50% of people in the United States have savings enough to get them through hard times. That’s why we’re seeing government workers who are not getting paid waiting in lines at the food bank. It’s unconscionable and just so wrong on so many different levels.

AMY GOODMAN: Professor Chilton, are food stamps – is SNAP the new name for food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Yes, SNAP is the new name for food stamps. It means Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Lots of people continue to refer to it as food stamps because it is a beloved program. It used to be a bipartisan darling. That’s why it’s so surprising that the Republicans have been so absent in this entire dialog and have been actively causing harm. It’s very surprising. SNAP benefits, or food stamps, as many people still call them, was a way to bring together rural communities, farming communities with urban groups, people who really need access to that food.

So, it’s quite surprising that the Republicans have been causing so much harm along with the Trump administration. Again, this is something that used to have a lot bipartisan support. Unfortunately, this withdrawal of SNAP benefits and this cruel way of threatening states and even threatening grocery stores if they help SNAP recipients is part of a long history in the United States of denying people food in order to cause chaos and also force people into submission.

This is what the United States government did to Native Americans less than 100 years ago and on beyond that. They used to starve Native Americans into submission in order to steal their land and to force them into compliance with the American government. Finally, I just wanted to say that the right to food is extremely important in this sense. And at the Climate Summit in Belém, they have insisted that ending poverty and ending hunger is central to ensuring that we address the climate crisis. Food is a fundamental human right.

Many states can actually put the right to food in their constitutions. Why should we wait on the federal government, who is not abiding by the rule of law? They’re completely absent, morally corrupt. And we need to really – what’s amazing is the solidarity expressed with people who are poor. I am just so energized and filled with awe at the community groups that have come together to feed their families, that farmers, Black, white, Latino, and Native have been helping their communities, and many of those farmers and farmworkers are also participating in SNAP.

So, I have lots of hope for the American people coming up with new and creative ideas, including Mayor Mamdani, who wants to have publicly funded grocery stores in the city of New York. There are wonderful new ideas emerging, and I’m just in awe of the American people coming together.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to President Trump being interviewed on Monday night by Laura Ingraham on Fox.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, SNAP has gone from, like, $7 billion to many times $7 billion. And the people keep talking about SNAP, but SNAP is supposed to be veered down and out. You really, really have – that’s what the purpose of it – people, they get it, they walk in, and they get it automatically now. So, the number is many times what it should be. It’s disgraceful.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Can we – can we change that?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: You wouldn’t have been able – I’ll tell you what. This country would have been busted, 100% busted, within five months into a new administration if I didn’t win.

LAURA INGRAHAM: Can we – can we reform SNAP and these benefits so they’re used for the people who really need them?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, I think we can reform it. Sure. It’s meant for people – and you know what it does is it really puts the country at jeopardy. People that need it have to get it. I’m all for it. But people that are able-bodied, can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it’s easier, that’s not the purpose of it.

AMY GOODMAN: So, if you can explain, are they now trying to – using this opportunity to go after people who receive food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Oh, they already have been doing that. I think the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed in the summertime is already an indication of what they’re trying to do. One thing I would like to remind Trump and his administration is that the vast majority of people who are participating in SNAP are actually, as Trump would say, down and out. That’s when I talked about the precariousness of the American people, that 50% of the people in the United States don’t have enough savings to get them through hard times, again, while his own workers are waiting in food pantry lines, he doesn’t think that people are down and out, need actual food?

So, we need to correct him. As well, people who are able-bodied who are receiving SNAP benefits are actually already working, which I want to insist that the reason that they’re on SNAP is because their wages are far too low to support them being able to pay their rent, pay for healthcare, and pay for food. That’s why so many people tell me about trading off – they’re not eating in order to take their medicines, or they don’t take their medicine because they need to eat. This is why we have a major public health crisis.

We are at the verge of a major public health crisis with the healthcare premiums increasing. And it’s deeply concerning. This is why we need to have universal healthcare and also maybe consider if we’re going to get rid of SNAP, let’s turn it into universal basic income so people are not tied solely to being able to buy groceries, that they can spend their money as they please. There are two major voices that are absent in this entire dialog, and that would be the food industry.

Walmart is the primary redeemer of SNAP benefits. They redeem one-quarter of SNAP benefits, and the vast majority of their workers participate in SNAP. Walmart has been completely silent in this. As well, we need to think about Amazon and also the healthcare companies that are increasing the premiums. We need to bring corporations and the government back into line and find ways we can promote health and wellbeing and solve this public health crisis.

AMY GOODMAN: And finally, we just passed Veterans Day. Can you talk about veterans receiving food stamps, people who are disabled receiving food stamps?

MARIANA CHILTON: Yes. Yes, very much so. 1.4 million veterans participate in the SNAP program. The vast majority of those veterans are people with disabilities, and those disabilities were created in the combat that they were doing for the United States, mental health challenges. 40% of people who have disabilities in this country report food insecurity, and SNAP is a lifeline for them because their disability benefits are not enough to help support their health and wellbeing.

Not only veterans, but also active-duty military. Many active-duty military families also participate in SNAP. So, we need to be able to support veterans, people who are active-duty military, families with children, seniors and people with disabilities.

AMY GOODMAN: Mariana Chilton, we thank you so much for being with us, Professor of Practice in the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of the book The Painful Truth About Hunger in America.

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Epstein Brother EXPOSES Trump Underage SCANDAL With SHOCK IMAGE!
Jack Cocchiarella Show
Nov 12, 2025

Political commentator Jack Cocchiarella reacts to the latest Epstein Trump scandal.



Transcript

If you thought the Jeffrey Epstein leaks
were done for the day, you would be dead
wrong. And Donald Trump would be very
upset, which he is because Jeffrey
Epstein's brother just shared
information that is blowing up this
scandal more than we even could have
imagined with one devastating image in
some very unsettling anecdotes. We are
going to get into it all. But before we
do, if I could quickly ask you to leave
a like on this video and if you haven't
already and you enjoy our channel to hit
that subscribe button because it's goes
a long way in supporting our work. Now,
before we get into what Epstein's
brother shared today with all of these
emails coming out which are just so
damning for Donald Trump, I want to
start with the other devastating news he
got today. Adelita Graalva being sworn
in the 218th signature on the discharge
petition to release the Epstein files in
the speech she gave today which is
blowing up Trump's term.

[Adelita Grijalva] And while we celebrate this moment
today, our American promise is under
serious threat.
Basic freedoms are under attack. Health
care premiums are skyrocketing. Babies
are being ripped away from their parents
by masked agents. We can and must do
better.
What is most concerning is not what this
administration has done, but what the
majority in this body has failed to do.
Hold Trump accountable as a co-equal
branch of government that we are.
It has been 50 days since the people of
Arizona's seventh congressional district
elected me to represent them. 50 days
that over 800,000 Arizonans have been
left without access to the basic
services that every constituent
deserves.
This is an abuse of power.
One individual should not be able to
unilaterally obstruct the swearing in of
a duly-elected member of Congress for
political reasons.
Our democracy only works when everyone
has a voice.
This includes the millions of people
across the country who have experienced
violence and exploitation,
including Liz Stein and Jessica
Michaels, both survivors of Jess Jeffrey
Epstein's abuse. They are here in the
gallery with us this evening.
Thank you for being here.
Just this morning, House Democrats
released more emails showing that Trump
knew more about Epstein's abuses than he
he previously acknowledged. It's past
time for Congress to restore its role as
a check and balance on this
administration and fight for we, the
American people.

Donald Trump can no longer run. He can
no longer hide. And the Epstein emails
that came out this morning might be the
most damning indictment yet in this
scandal. It is a smoking gun that shows
not only did Donald Trump know about
what was happening with Epstein and his
victims. He was clearly accessory to it
enough to spend time with those victims
and to have said nothing. And Epstein
and Galain Maxwell knew that Donald
Trump had said nothing. They were almost
surprised that he did and they knew they
could hold it against him whatever he
did with those victims if he ever tried
to. That is what was made very very
clear. And I think what we've understood
throughout this entire scandal as more
and more information has come out, more
testimony that might not be in the
documents. But I think that what's not
in the documents is a little bit more
damning. And that is why what Jeffrey
Epstein's brother said today in an image
that he had previously sent to Epstein
about Donald Trump and his relationship
with young women is so disturbing
especially with the information we have
gotten today. That was all broken down
on MSNBC. And I want to take a look.
Person we were just talking about
Jeffrey Epstein's brother um Mark Epste.
We just put up um the meme that Mark
Epstein sent to Jeffrey Epstein a
picture. Let me put it up one more time.
Um, this is Donald Trump's face and it
says, "Would you trust this man with
your daughter?" Um, there it is. Um, you
just spoke with the man who sent that
meme to his brother. What did he say
today?
Right. I'll actually be honest. I
completely missed the segment because I
was on the phone with him and just got
up from off the street here. And I think
we should be very clear here. Mark Epste
is somebody who has said that he has
known for decades now that his brother
had a deep close friendship with Jeffrey
with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
And he said the way that he put it to
me, when are people going to admit to
themselves this guy, President Trump is
so full of every time he opens his
mouth. He says he wanted to deny an
essay.
Maybe does. He wanted to deny that he
had a relationship or a friendship with
Donald Trump. As Mark tells me, back in
1999, he was on the plane when they were
having intimate conversation about women
on a flight from Palm Beach, Florida
back up here to New York. He goes, I he
talked to his brother, somebody who he
still cares deeply about even after his
passing. And he says, at what point is
there going to be a reckoning that
Donald Trump just makes up stuff? And
the number two part is that he's been
very clear. This is outside the scope of
what we were talking about today, but he
wants a full investigation into the
death of his brother, saying he doesn't
believe anybody at this point anymore.
He said he did sit down, he just told
me, with the House Oversight Committee
here this summer. I said, "Did they call
and ask you to come in and speak?" He
goes, "No, I requested to." And he said
he went into detail with staff trying to
get them to compel them to go even
further beyond just the relationship
between Donald Trump and other men that
were a part of this cabal and to really
get at the fact of why did people want
Jeffrey Epstein gone. This also goes to
a conversation I had with Mark over the
summer when he told me that Steve Bannon
had 15 hours of footage uh of him
interviewing Jeffrey Epstein. We have
not seen that footage. And I think it's
also worth noting that Michael Wolf has
said that he has up to 100 hours of
audio recordings with Jeffrey Epstein.
We have not heard those audio recordings
from either of the men. And that is what
hits at the heart that Mark Epstein is
so frustrated by that the public
including him as the brother do not have
a full understanding of what the
Department of Justice have has or
frankly what either of these two other
men have.
Do you trust this guy with your
daughter? That's not your your 25 year
old daughter. That's not your 30, 40
year old daughter. That's Donald Trump
looking at a child and saying, "I'll be
dating her in 10 years." Daughter. That
is a a beauty pageant, a teenager.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein seem to
spend a lot of time around those. It's
that type of daughter. That's what that
image reflects.
And they were joking about it. It was so
glaringly obvious Donald Trump's
disgusting nature around young girls
that it was laughable that it went
without saying. That is what is being
shown. And Jeffrey Epstein's brother, of
course, was the one who alleged that it
was it was Epstein who left Mara Lago.
It was Epstein who realized that Donald
Trump was a criminal, that he was a
phony, that he didn't want to be with
him. He didn't want to be his buddy.
Imagine that. Imagine being so just
detestable that Jeffrey Epstein doesn't
want to hang out with you. That is what
Epstein's brother has said of Trump. So,
he's joking about how much he, much like
Epstein, loves young girls
at the same time as he's sharing more
information today about the closeness,
the relationship with Donald Trump and
his brother. And Donald Trump's silence
really speaks volumes. You know, there's
that clip there's that clip of Trump
talking about Bill Clinton back in 2015
when he was on the campaign trail,
saying that there's going to be some
problems with him as it relates to
Epstein. Now, it's interesting that
Donald Trump, who had largely stayed
quiet and was able to because of our
failed mainstream media, not receive any
push back about his relationship with
Epstein. interesting that he brought up
Clinton to me because why would he want
to introduce that? Why would he want to
introduce that conversation? Well,
again, who was Donald Trump running
against in 2015? It was Hillary Clinton.
So, I think Trump was kind of, you know,
muddying the waters to be able to say,
well, you know, Bill, Bill was just as
much involved, so why do you want to
talk to me about it? Shouldn't you have
to ask Hillary? Because people see that
clip and they wonder, why would Trump
even want to bring it up? because I
think he knew it could become an issue
of the campaign. Right? That's what that
2015 email was about
between Wolf and between Epstein.
It was about how they could potentially
hold Epstein's relationship with Donald
Trump, the crimes that they committed
against him if he became president or if
he spoke out against Epstein. Right?
That's what Michael Wolf was advising
was advising of Donald Trump.
So, it's interesting that he did that.
He's been thinking about this for a
while and it's all gotten a lot clearer.
And I think what is most important to do
right now, of course, is not to stop
pressing on this. We should be talking
about Epstein all the time, but we
should maybe even be looking outside of
the documents that we have.
Looking for testimony from Epstein's
brother, trying to find those tapes, get
him handed over. I think that's what we
need to be doing because we know what's
in the file and we know how damaging it
is to Trump and we know it still may
take a few more weeks.
So, let's bring in the other
testimonies. That's what I want to see.
Just just follow the money.
It is so damning. It is so glaringly
obvious that these connections are so
widespread.
Cash Patel telling us that it was only
Epstein. He was the only person
involved. Nobody else, no other
trafficking is the biggest admission yet
that this is a broader operation that
Trump was certainly involved in. And we
need to just keep pushing on that. We
have to keep pushing. Talk about all of
this. AOC certainly did, not just with
Epstein, with the shutdown as well,
right here.
What is your uh what do you think it
shows you about what uh we know about
Trump's relationship with Epstein? Well,
you know, I think uh we've been seeing
Republicans have been trying to deflect
and imply that I mean, even House
Speaker Mike Johnson had insinuated a
couple months ago that Trump was on some
kind of secret mission. Um I think what
these emails demonstrate is precisely
why rep uh House Republicans have been
trying to block the release of the
Epstein files for months now. I think it
illustrates in a very damning way and I
think it also implicates House Speaker
Mike Johnson uh as well.
This is no time to let up and this is a
time for Democrats to really tap in to
independent media. Now I always say this
if you are independent media that kind
of just follows along with what the the
corporate wing of the party wants. You
kind of just do the regular talking
points. You stay on message and there's
nothing wrong with uplifting the
successes of our party. I think it's
great being a part of the fight, but if
you are an apologist for Chuck Schumer,
if you are not pushing for more
progressive candidates, if you're not
pushing back on those who take money
from the crypto lobby, the oil lobby,
the Israel lobby, you're just kind of
corporate media because you're still
corporate owned. But this is a great
time for Democrats to engage with the
independent media that wants to be
talking about this that'll push in the
way that the mainstream press won't. And
I advise every Democrat to do that.
Someone like Robert Garcia chairing up
oversight right now. My god. Talk about
someone who has used independent media
to the fullest and supported us
mightest like two times a day at this
point. He's been on this show all the
time. That is the type of leader that we
need. Robert Garcia, hats off to you
today, especially being able to secure
these documents. We are going to keep
fighting on this show. We are going to
bring you all the news you need to know.
If you want to support that, as always,
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time, I'll see you

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Trump THREATENS Federal JUDGE, Police are HORRIFIED
Mason Talks
Nov 11, 2025

During a tense Supreme Court hearing, Donald Trump’s legal team faced tough questions from justices he himself appointed, challenging his use of emergency powers to impose massive tariffs. The case highlights the limits of presidential authority, the major questions doctrine, and what it means for any president thinking they can act above the law. Business leaders, legal analysts, and lawmakers are all watching closely as this decision could reshape executive power for years to come.

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