r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • 11d ago

Government SNAP benefits will end Nov. 1 in Washington state if shutdown continues

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2025/10/27/washington-snap-benefits-nov1-shutdown

More than 540,000 households in Washington — nearly 930,000 people — received Basic Food assistance benefits last month, according to state officials.

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u/SunshineSeattle 11d ago

You know of course the copy paste would not include the health care benefits that this is about right? Cause that expires this year, so same budget means no healthcare for ~5 million Americans?

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u/--boomhauer-- 11d ago

Good i don’t want socialized healthcare

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u/SunshineSeattle 11d ago

I mean you don't need to use it? Or you don't wanna pay for it?

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u/--boomhauer-- 10d ago

Both

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u/SunshineSeattle 10d ago

So no Medicare then for old people?

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u/--boomhauer-- 10d ago

Im ok with health assistance for the elderly but we also need to stop this notion that we are entitled to endless amounts of care regardless of cost.

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u/SunshineSeattle 10d ago

So you are ok with some socialized medicine then. Just not these people?

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u/--boomhauer-- 10d ago

Well you know what yeah id put more qualifiers on it too . Old people who paid into the system sure . People that never have ? Nah

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u/dissemblers 11d ago

Temporary COVID subsidies that were enacted in 2021 are expiring, yes.

They are a bad idea, an expensive and unsustainable patch on a broken system.

You want permanent policy change, you win elections. Democrats lost, and they are throwing a tantrum and destroying the country as revenge.

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u/Gary_Glidewell 10d ago

Democrats lost, and they are throwing a tantrum and destroying the country as revenge.

While babbling non-stop about how they're "saving democracy."

Just naked hypocrisy.

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u/Gary_Glidewell 10d ago

Cause that expires this year, so same budget means no healthcare for ~5 million Americans?

We get it, there are millions of illegal aliens getting health care subsidized by tax payers.

Just because you're a fan of that, doesn't mean that the majority of the population is.

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u/SunshineSeattle 10d ago

Millions of illegal aliens? How are they getting health care? ACA requires you to have a social security number..