America Funds War Faster Than It Feeds The Poor.

America Funds War Faster Than It Feeds the Poor

Every year, the United States pours nearly $895 billion into the military — that’s about 44% of all global defense spending and roughly 13% of the entire federal budget.

By contrast, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — which feeds more than 41 million Americans — costs about $100 billion a year. That’s just 2.5% of the federal budget.

Let that sink in:
For every $1 America spends fighting wars, it spends about 11 cents feeding its own people.

Yet, when politicians talk about “cutting spending,” they point to food aid, healthcare, or housing — programs that keep people alive — while military budgets pass with bipartisan applause.

We spend:

• $100 million on a single fighter jet — enough to fund a city’s food assistance for a year.
• $2.3 trillion on the Afghanistan war — enough to pay for two decades of SNAP.
• $4.5 trillion a year on healthcare — but only 2–3% of that goes to prevention and nutrition.

And somehow, we’re told SNAP is “unsustainable.”
But let’s be real — we’re not going to balance the budget on SNAP.

Cutting food aid doesn’t solve fiscal problems; it just creates human ones.
Starving families doesn’t reduce the deficit — it just hides it behind suffering.

If America can fund endless wars, corporate bailouts, and tax breaks for billionaires, it can afford to keep people fed.

Because the issue isn’t what we can pay for —
It’s what we choose to prioritize.