Former Trump official says the president 'doesn't give a s***' about SNAP as funding set to end [View all]
Source: The Independent
Thursday 30 October 2025 13:13 EDT
A member of President Donald Trump’s first administration has claimed that the commander-in-chief “doesn’t give a s***” about funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program running out at midnight on Friday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown. SNAP benefits, otherwise known as food stamps, are given to around 41.1 million Americans monthly, according to the Department of Agriculture, but, as it stands, will not be available in November as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says she does not have the $8 billion needed to pay for it and is legally barred from dipping into a contingency fund.
Miles Taylor – who served as deputy chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security in 2019 and was subsequently unmasked as the author of an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times attacking the administration – lashed out over the impasse on X. “I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018-2019 – for 35 days – before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed,” Taylor wrote. “Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a s***.”
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told The Independent that the comments only provide “further proof that Miles Taylor’s entire identity is being a TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] clown. “If he actually cared about workers being paid and families receiving benefits, he would urge Democrats to reopen the government – just like the president has been doing. Democrats could end the shutdown today but Miles is too blinded by his TDS rage to accept the truth.”
After leaving the administration, Taylor published a book about his experiences entitled A Warning (2019), endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and has since worked as a national security consultant while remaining a vocal critic of Trump.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-snap-benefits-shutdown-miles-taylor-b2855458.html
None of the GOP give a shit. They have this skewed delusion of nothing but "inner city" (code word for POC) people who are on it and they need to purge them from society.
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