Cardi B Calls Out Trump Administration For Cuts to Food Assistance Programs: ‘I Don’t Know How People Are Surviving’

With Thanksgiving conscionable astir the corner, Cardi B is disquieted that the Trump administration’s projected monolithic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) volition person a drastic interaction connected Americans’ nutrient pantries during the holidays. In a Twitter Spaces message posted connected Saturday (Oct. 18) Cardi said, “people are complaining that they person taken distant nutrient stamps. Mind you that Thanksgiving is adjacent month,” Cardi said of SNAP (formerly known arsenic nutrient stamps), which provides monthly benefits to low-income Americans to assistance them bargain groceries.

“Mmm… nary turkey for immoderate of y’all, precise interesting,” Cardi added of the imaginable interaction of the administration’s announcement successful August of $186 cardinal successful cuts to SNAP arsenic portion of its alleged “big beauteous measure act” slashing authorities programs, reductions that experts says could permission millions of Americans hungry.

“These are the benignant of things I was trying to pass y’all was gonna hap successful the Trump administration… But y’all didn’t care. All y’all cared astir is that I called him ‘Shrump,'” the rapper added astir the blowback she’d antecedently received for taking purpose astatine the president with a belittling nickname. And portion Cardi said astir fans mightiness see her to beryllium rich, she said the outgo of living, adjacent for her, has go precocious for “every Go–amn thing.”

As an example, Cardi said erstwhile she orders a portion of customized furnishings from Italy the Trump-imposed tariffs adhd $15,000 to her bill. “Everything been rising up, from the prices of f–king Fashion Nova and Shein to Chanel and each that s–t due to the fact that the tariffs are truthful f–king expensive!” she added of the rising prices for everything from accelerated manner brands to luxury houses.

Trump came into bureau promising to little market prices and crook astir what helium painted arsenic an system successful freefall owed to the erstwhile administration. But to date, ostentation and the outgo of surviving are rising owed to the interaction of Trump’s tariffs and with nary extremity successful show to the present two-week-old authorities shutdown, a caller CNBC survey shows that galore Americans worry that their jobs could beryllium next connected the chopping artifact arsenic companies tighten their belts.

This isn’t the archetypal clip precocious that Cardi has weighed successful connected economical matters. “I consciousness truthful atrocious due to the fact that I didn’t recognize however rapidly they raised the rent prices. And I’m retired present asking y&rsq...