A demonstrator holds a sign reading "People I love depend on SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid" during a sit-in protest against a Republican budget plan on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2025.

I've attended many Christian churches and read enough Bible verses to know that helping to feed the hungry is something you should do.

It's a duty of mercy, even if the hungry ones don't look like you.

The paradox is that Republicans in Congress, some of whom claim to be good conservative Christians, don't seem to care.

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Poor, hungry children and families are casualties in the plan to fund President Donald Trump's tax-cut bill by slashing more than $230 billion from SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Commonly referred to as food stamps, it's the nation's largest anti-hunger program.

Nearly 700,000........

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