‘Deeply disturbing portrait of America’: Nicolle Wallace rips GOP over looming SNAP cutoff

Come Saturday, the 42 million Americans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will be forced to go without benefits due to the ongoing government shutdown.

On Monday’s “Deadline: White House,” Nicolle Wallace placed the blame for the looming lapse entirely on the president and the Republican Party. “It is awful when anyone in America goes hungry, and it is a choice,” she said, “it’s Donald Trump’s choice.”

The BLN host noted this isn’t the first time the administration has slashed food assistance for some of America’s most vulnerable. In March, it cut approximately $500 million in aid for food banks.

“That $300 million that Donald Trump is spending on making a gold ballroom where the East Wing once stood, and the $230 million he’s trying to get us, the American taxpayers, to reimburse him for being under criminal investigation, they add up to roughly the same amount of money he has cut from America’s food banks,” Wallace said.

The BLN host called the split-screen of Trump’s White House renovations and the impending cuts “a deeply disturbing portrait of America,” adding, “the images of Donald Trump destroying —with an actual wrecking ball — the actual East Wing of the White House, while Americans are about to go without food stamps, is a snapshot of America that will live forever.”

Wallace also called out the president for pushing “policies that will hurt the parts of the coalition he used to publicly speak out for.”

“Food insecurity in America is a lot more common than anybody can imagine, and it knows no party affiliation,” she explained. “It does not care who you voted for, and the fact that Trump and all the Republicans in Congress are opting into this tragedy, this sort of shameful thing in America in 2025, should be front-page news all over the place.”

You can watch Wallace’s full analysis in the clip at the top of the page.