Trump won Kentucky in 2024 by 31 percent. One voter now says America "voted for Trump on empty promises." [View all]

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"Trump's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' will also jeopardize SNAP benefits for 114,000 people, or roughly one-fifth of recipients, in Kentucky, where work requirements will now expand to roughly 50,000 people aged 54 to 65, along with caregivers whose children are older than 14, starting in early 2026," Clifton explains. "The bill also expanded work requirements for military veterans and people experiencing homelessness — effectively pushing many out of a program they rely on to not go hungry."

Thomas Howell, a 25-year-old fast food worker in Martin County, told The Nation, "It sucks, but right now, I don't have my own vehicle — and it's pretty much the only work opportunity I have. If I make $170 per week, I consider that a really good week. And I get $110 per month in food stamps. It's pretty much all the food I have unless someone else buys it for me."

Howell voted for Trump in 2020 and 2024 but is now feeling disenchanted with him, lamenting that the president "seemed unwilling to cooperate with any amount of funding when it came to food stamps and just shifted blame toward Democrats."

Howell told The Nation, "I'm truly disappointed in the minimal effort Trump's been giving us poor people. I think most of this country voted for Trump on empty promises, hoping he’d give us a better future. But instead, it seems it's going the exact opposite direction. I pray to God I'm wrong."