I Bought Baby Formula For My Neighbors Who Depend On SNAP. It Was A Big Mistake.

HuffPost · Emma Fulenwider · 2026-11-05 17:40 UTC

"I remembered that I had broken the first rule of helping. The worst part was, I knew better."

I have the kind of husband who doesn’t ask questions — not even when six giant cans of infant formula show up at our house on Halloween even though we don’t have a baby. Without raising an eyebrow, he carried the bags in and went back to making sourdough pretzels.

If he had asked, I would have stated that I was done waiting for “someone” to do “something” about the government shutdown that took place last fall and the millions of people who were at risk of not receiving the SNAP benefits they need in November 2025 because of it.

Elphaba Mode activated.

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