The paradox of a political party wholly invested in growing the social welfare state but refusing to open the government to feed impoverished Wisconsinites ought to be getting more attention, Angela Rachidi says.

“Democrats put themselves in the situation we’re in, and it’s non-winnable,” says Rachidi, a researcher who has written extensively about FoodShare and SNAP at the American Enterprise Institute and the Badger Institute.

“A lot of households are going to be affected in a major way. We should be very concerned about it.”

If the federal government shutdown continues, funding for an estimated 700,000 state residents who use SNAP — the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly called “food stamps” and branded as FoodShare in Wisconsin — will be suspended at the end of October. They receive an average of $190 a month through FoodShare at a cost of about $1.7 billion a year.

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