What are your thoughts on this protest of DES?
Nutrition Assistance and DES have faced large cuts and new requirements from the Trump administration, due to the horrible 'Big Beautiful Bill', but let's be honest, Conservatives have always wanted poor family and children to starve, and have limited or no access to medical care (but 60 billion for ICE and 100 billion for a ballroom of taxpayer money seem reasonable to them...). So DES is processing all these new changes very slowly, but that's by design. They are likely way way understaffed for the large amount of applications and appeals, after thousands have suddenly been kicked off EBT/Food Stamps. Even if you provide documentation that you are still eligible under the new requirements, there's not nearly enough people to go through all the documents, and so even people who should be eligible are losing access to nutrition assistance. And if you've ever tried to call DES, even before all these changes, it was extremely difficult to get through to someone. Again, it's basically designed to be broken. So I understand the protest, but I hope it is directed at the correct people, and not employees of DES, who are probably miserable at their jobs every day. They can only work with what resources they have, and they do not seem to have nearly enough help. But I hope the protest makes some noise, at least.