Churches look to step up as government services dwindle under Trump

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3. SNAP benefits were 100 billion last year.

Even if the benefits were only cut 10% that's 10 billion that churches would have to make up to meet their responsibility for getting Trump elected. (I realize that not all churches were pro Trump, but White evangelicals were his strongest voting block and continue to support him.)
That's a huge amount of food support that churches will have to give. I'm thinking that churches assume that Trump's regime will channel new money through the churches to provide food support, and the pastors and church staff can siphon off the top third for administrative expenses. And of course, if people get used to getting food support from the churches they will develop an allegiance towards the church.
Still, with the huge cuts in social services proposed by the Trump regime it seems impossible for churches to make up even a small portion of the total.




Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - Key Statistics and Research | Economic Research Service
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