Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.

Fox News’s Will Cain asked House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday why more Americans were blaming Republicans for the government shutdown. Cain began by saying it was a “good idea to shine a spotlight” on the SNAP food benefit program “that is not living up to its expectations.”

The House speaker insists that Donald Trump is acting the same way during the current shutdown as during the last time around.

Jen Psaki shows Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President JD Vance explaining out loud that the reason they don't want to fund food assistance to millions of Americans is because if they do,

Huge increases in healthcare coverage is nothing for rich Republicans to absorb. And then there's the starvation factor.

As Republican leaders appear to grow increasingly frustrated with the shutdown of the federal government, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted on Thursday that he is refusing to allow legislation to fund food stamps because he wants to keep “pressure” on the Democratic Party.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is set to run out of funds, upping pressure on both parties to reach a deal to end the government shutdown.

As NOTUS reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a plan to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) running during a government shutdown by using contingency funds. But that disappeared from their website. Still, MAGA Mike Johnson joined Dana Bash on CNN and lied about that.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) found himself in an awkward moment on Friday in front of reporters, as he scrambled to clarify comments made by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who said to the public that "we have failed you" amidst the ongoing government shutdown.