5 snappily written cartoons about vanishing food stamp benefits

Artists take on SNAP recipients, Halloween generosity, and more

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This political cartoon is titled “When you’re just barely hanging on… and then…” It depicts a woman and a man hanging onto a high tree branch that has just snapped, indicated by the word “SNAP” The woman carries a baby in a baby bjorn and the man wears a T-shirt that reads “Snap recipients.”

(Image credit: Dave Whamond / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon is drawn in a muted, somber style and is titled, “The house that turns off the lights on Halloween.” A body lies outside the White House and is labeled “Snap recipients.” It points at a window where Donald Trump looms.

(Image credit: Jack Ohman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon takes place outside a house on Halloween. An elderly woman greets a group of children trick-or-treating and says, “OK, who needs SNAP benefits?”

(Image credit: John Darkow / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This cartoon is titled “Halloween Treats, 2025” and shows three different images. The image at left is labeled “Twix(T)” and shows a low-income person squished between boulders named “SNAP Cuts” and “Medicaid Cuts.” The middle image is labeled “Payday” and depicts a fatcat pig in a suit and top hat smoking a ciagr on top of large, soft bag labeled "trillions in tax cuts.” The image on right is labeled “Whoppers” and it’s Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. He says “The Dems Caused the Shutdown.” An arrow points to him and reads, “(Guy whose party controls all 3 branches of the gov’t.)”

(Image credit: John Cole / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This political cartoon depicts a young boy dressed as batman and a young girl dressed as a witch. They are surrounded by three small piles of candy and one large pile. The girl looks at her candy and says, “This is my chocolate pile, my gummies pile, my hard candy pile..” before she looks at the large pile of candy and says, “And my stockpile since the GOP ended my SNAP food benefit.”

(Image credit: Joe Heller / Copyright 2025 Hellertoon.com)

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