For the various programs, some run out sooner than others. It's estimated that the EBT program will last through Jan. WIC may or may not last that long. School Lunches may last longer than the other 2.
Read several articles stating that EBT’s will run out by Feb. 1. So no IMMEDIATE impact.
A DHS official confirmed to Breitbart News that the U.S. Border Patrol and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is releasing more than 2,000 family units caught at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing a lack of detention space.
The border-crossing adults and the children they arrived at the border with will be released and given a court date for an immigration hearing. The adults will be given ankle monitors, though the DHS official says the process of keeping track of border-crossers via ankle monitors is not effective.
Wow! Did not know that. Thanks for correcting me regarding the EBT program.
I hope the lady in front of me at the checkout last month knows this so she's not buying cart of crab legs and shrimp this month. She may have to make that card stretch a bit.
Re: government shutdown & Consequences
It would just be so cool if corporations or farmers, or, low and behold, even other parents in all counties, took care of lunch for their school kids.
I mean, hurricane Katrina brought people out to prove they can take care of their own in a disaster. We’re talking school lunch? Geeez.
We’re either adults, or totally now a subsidized Freebie Nation on wheels. Color me exasperated.