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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

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But it’s not a break point for people. Sure they don’t support it but as long as republicans continue to attack marginalized communities, their voter base will remain.

Even though the Congressional Budget Office provided them with /lots/ of data about the catastrophic effects this bill would have, they apparently didn't care. They probably know how unpopular many of its provisions are and apparently don't care about that either. I have no idea honestly.

This is great. I think the *largest* district size we should ever accept would be a double-WY rule: WY gets *two* Reps, and that sets the ratio. Cube root rule would be OK. I hate the "can't add them all at once" BS. We've suffered with too few for too long!

I haven't landed on a specific approach. But I have no question that it must be expanded. I'm going to be raising awareness of the issue [plus others, e.g. Senate disproportion] in workshops I have coming up. First step for change is people being aware of the problem!!

Wait, you want the House of Representatives to have almost *seven thousand* (340x20) elected members? Twice the size of China's and more than ten times the size of the next largest body, the UK parliament? I'm actually really curious what other changes you'd make to support managing that scale...

We should start there. Fall back to 1 per 100k or maybe 150k. But at some point it becomes functionally impossible to say they are "representatives". When they can gerrymander or be bought, then it's useless.

The voters in my state that have the most support to cut SNAP are the ones most likely to need it. This also applies to healthcare and any government assistance because they want to “own the libs”.

Bingo. Rural WI residents vote overwhelmingly Republican and on average about 15% of them are on SNAP and Medicaid. However, going without health insurance and food is a small price to pay so the kid down the street can't color his hair blue.

UGH. inhumane and embarrassing that our supposedly "Christian" leaders would allow this....indeed advocate for this. The hypocrisy is.... unbearable. How Does It Feel, Dexter Drive, off of their album March to War.

I’m thinking that if those 3 D Reps hadn’t died in office, all the Rs who voted “no” or “present” would have switched their votes to “yes. It’s a cynical political game, and the Ds have pulled similar crap in the past. It’s why we don’t have a public health care option.

The action of the current congress and administration make me wonder if they intend to ever let us vote again. Will we have elections again? Seems like to me of you're doing things that NO ONE wants, you don't care much about pissing off EVERYONE, you're not worried about getting votes.

so let's resist the donor class now and vote in folks responsive to We The People asap Dems have been fighting in Congress GOP would love folks to fight Dems instead we can all agree those with too much should help and those with less can be helped

Glenn Storm@glennstorm.bsky.social

Right now U.S. Republicans in Congress are jammed up a) the protests are working to make the most vulnerable nervous (keep calling and protesting) b) they DO NOT want their constituents to realize they are set to cut $880 B from Medicaid and MORE c) they are at odds with each other Push Hard Now