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Food assistance, health care costs, air travel, and military pay all face major strain if the shutdown extends beyond this week.

The pain of a U.S. government shutdown is poised to intensify this week as the funding lapse nears a full month with no resolution in sight.

A series of deadlines in the coming days could have negative consequences for ordinary Americans, cutting off food assistance for low-income Americans, raising health insurance premiums for millions on Obamacare and depriving air-traffic controllers, TSA agents and other federal workers of paychecks.

SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, are slated to dry up on Nov. 1 without congressional action, impacting an estimated 40 million low-income Americans across red and blue states.

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Still beats me why America voted for this. History repeats I guess.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Defund education and you deny people the opportunity to learn from history.

[–] GreatAspie86@lemy.lol 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Even with funded education, the average person has no interest in educating themselves. Most humans are just morons who are easily manipulated.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

This is the hard realization people are having to come to. Far to large a section of society can barely tie their shoes and put on their pants. Before the internet they were mostly to themselves but no longer. With the advent of money for attention its become far to profitable to spew to the lowest common denominator. And now its gotten out of control.

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