SNAP funding expires.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, the ongoing government shutdown caused federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to lapse. The funding gap will delay scheduled payments to many program beneficiaries who use the money to help cover food costs, putting the roughly 42 million people receiving benefits at risk of food insecurity. On Friday, two federal judges ruledthat the government must keep the program at least partially operational using contingency funding and gave the Trump administration until Monday to respond to the order.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about SNAP benefits expiring, breaking down the latest on the, I guess, the fallout from the government funding shutdown fight, |
| 0:41.9 | which is now getting pretty real. |
| 0:44.1 | It is Monday, November 3rd. |
| 0:46.6 | We're going to share some views from the left and the right on that story. |
| 0:49.4 | And then, of course, I'll offer my take. |
| 0:52.3 | Before we jump in, I want to give you a quick heads up on a couple of things. |
| 0:55.3 | First of all, a couple weeks ago I published that piece. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, things are really bad right now, highlighting concerns with the Trump administration's actions. |
| 1:05.3 | And we initially made that piece available to paid subscribers only, but we dropped the paywall on the following |
| 1:11.7 | Monday after the piece was picked up by several other news organizations. |
| 1:15.8 | On Friday, Associate Editor Audrey Moore had published a response to that piece, which was up |
| 1:21.0 | on our website and our newsletter and also shared as a podcast here on our podcast feed. |
| 1:26.3 | It too was paywalled upon release, |
| 1:28.3 | but a few listeners and readers pointed out |
| 1:30.7 | the kind of unfairness of leaving a counter-argument |
| 1:33.3 | gated behind a paywall, which is a good point. |
| 1:35.7 | So in the interest of balance, |
| 1:37.4 | we've also dropped the paywall on Audrey's piece, |
| 1:40.3 | which you can now read in full on our website, |
| 1:42.3 | readtangle.com, |
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