The federal government has no intention of issuing emergency funds to help feed the 40 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as it faces running out of money on November 1st. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has told reporters that House Republicans are not pursuing stand-alone emergency funding to support SNAP, saying their focus is on broader government funding measures instead.

But judging by the well-meaning and definitely not foreign actors on X, the poor are being cast as the villains rather than the government refusing to help them. It started off with memes and screenshots of people asking why SNAP recipients are allowed to buy items like cookies and soda with benefits. That led to users posting images showing Whole Foods products available for purchase with SNAP funds.

Which would be gross enough if others weren’t using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to produce entirely fake videos of supposed SNAP beneficiaries claiming to use their benefits to make a profit off of reselling their groceries. 

Lady gets $2500/month SNAP food stamps and she sells ALL of them for $1200/month.

What an absolute SCAM. pic.twitter.com/eCXX23UbKT

— Mila Joy (@MilaLovesJoe) October 30, 2025