SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,  the largest federal nutrition assistance program in the United States.  SNAP benefits are set to expire in November 2025 due to the ongoing government shutdown.  If this occurs food access will be greatly reduced for over 42 million Americans, a moral collapse.  

The expiration of SNAP benefits isn’t some unfortunate accident—it’s the predictable outcome of Project 2025, a political agenda that treats poverty as a personal failing and markets as the guide to personal responsibility.  Project 2025  is riddled with mistaken -- childish, really -- ideological devotion to “free markets,”  a conceptual framework that relies on idealized preconditions. It is a teaching tool in college and in advanced High school economics courses.   Economically ignorant self-labeled "conservatives" use it as a picture of reality rather than a deductive model inherited from the Scottish enlightenment and the writings of Adam Smith, refined over the intervening 250 years until now.   Such misuse creates little harm when what is it stake are commodities or luxury items. But when misapplied to the welfare of human beings it is a tragic desecration of the economics profession and a danger to millions of our fellow Americans.

Still, the federal USDA funds will run dry unless the shutdown ends soon.    25 states have already announced that without that federal money  they will cut off food aid.  This means that in those states families, children, seniors, and disabled individuals will be left to find alternatives at a time when charitable giving is already stretched to the breaking point, barely covering gaps in childcare, housing, and basic medical care.  

The authors and supporters of Project 2025 know this. The impending disaster is their warning shot, not just for food policy, but for every Federal government social support system.