Via CNN (emphasis added):

"Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it's not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the funds to continue paying benefits, as it has with other priorities.

The food stamp program will run out of money in two weeks, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

"So you're talking about millions and millions of vulnerable families, of hungry families that are not going to have access to these programs because of this shutdown," she said.

Like other members of the Trump administration, Rollins cast blame on the Democrats, posting on X Thursday that they are putting "their political agenda ahead of food security for American families."…

Rollins' comments came a week after the US Department of Agriculture told states that there is not enough money to pay full food stamp benefits in November if the lapse in federal funding continues. The agency asked states to hold off on November payments until further notice."

Of course, the Democrats currently holding the funding hostage could easily just re-open the government, but they won't because if they can get all of their plantation slaves riled up with the welfare cuts, ready to commit violence in furtherance of the current state of anarcho-tyranny, they view this not as a problem to be solved but as a political opportunity.

Contrary to a lot of Ayn Rand-esque libertarians, I don't actually believe that a just society should follow the "let them eat cake" governing philosophy, allowing psychopathic demons like Bill Gates to accrue billions of dollars for himself as a reward for engineering and getting the government to mandate deadly experimental medical products while the middle class is hollowed out, corporations are allowed to offshore the industry that actually made America great in a race to the bottom, and the rabble is left to starve — if not for moral reasons, then at least practical ones, as this kind of growing chasm in wealth is not sustainable.