The White House is scrambling to have its official messaging over the end of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments heard — but it's being drowned out by hateful braying from the MAGA crowd, according to an MSNBC columnist.

The Republican Party's stance on the benefits being cut Saturday as a government shutdown enters its second month is oscillating, wrote Ja'han Jones, with messaging swinging between feigned sympathy and outright contempt for recipients.

The Trump administration initially attempted to signal compassion, posting a message on the USDA website urging Democrats to "reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance."

But Jones wrote, "MAGA influencers were less inclined to paint the Democrats as the heartless ones."

The veneer of concern quickly crumbled as other Republican voices emerged, Jones wrote. Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed Democrats are "getting a little bit tight right now" over SNAP funding, specifically targeting "inner cities."

He then went on to complain about "a lot of young men on SNAP that should be working" — despite USDA data showing 39% of SNAP participants are children, 20% are elderly, and 10% are individuals with disabilities.

Representative Clay Higgins took an even more aggressive stance, arguing that SNAP recipients who haven't stockpiled a month's worth of food "should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack."

Trump ally Mike Davis unleashed particularly inflammatory rhetoric, writing: "Get off your fat, ghetto a--es. Get a job. Stop reproducing. Change your s---ty culture." He declared it "outrageous 40M people get food stamps."

Conservative podcaster Adam Carolla went so far as to mock potential hunger, claiming "nobody could benefit from a nice fast more than the SNAP recipients."

"The administration’s performative compassion hasn’t been embraced across the Republican Party or among conservative influencers," Jones wrote.

He concluded, "While some conservatives want to use the potential of SNAP recipients going hungry as a cudgel to force Democrats to give up their demands and end the government shutdown, that messaging is being clouded by more vocal conservatives who seem perfectly fine with — if not giddy about — the suffering of SNAP recipients," Jones wrote.