Opinion | How it feels to be hungry and why food should be a basic right

Let me just offer one other bit of context for the congressional canceling of those extra SNAP benefits. Late last year, as the pandemic was “ending” and Congress was planning to cut those benefits, it noticed another truly needy place to put our taxpayer dollars. In fact, Congress found that institution so desperately needy that the representatives of the people offered $45 billion more than it even requested for 2023. And yes, I’m thinking about the Pentagon (as well, of course, as the military-industrial-congressional complex it’s part of).