The Louisiana Republican House member (RED STATE) ain’t worried about his people….
He IS worried about Donald Trump, who IS building a Ball Room and flying around the world..
And Eating a Meal…..
.Johnson’s constituents CANNOT grasp that Donald IS the problem for Johnson and Republicans, he’s STILL their ‘King’…
And a smooth working American Government….
Johnson’s district — a reliably red slice of western Louisiana — has one of the highest usage rates of the Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program in the nation, with nearly 1 in 5 households here relying on benefits. But in interviews, several people who rely on SNAP and voted for Johnson and President Donald Trump did not fault the Republican leaders, even as Trump waited until payments were set to lapse for 42 million Americans before publicly pressuring the GOP to end the shutdown.
Trump has long viewed entitlements like SNAP as a political third rail — at points urging fellow Republicans not to cut popular initiatives such as Social Security and Medicaid. But his distrust of government has helped fuel a dismantling of agencies and programs cheered on by an equally skeptical base, even among some beneficiaries.
A federal judge has ordered the government to step in and pay benefits this month — first in part, then in full. The Trump administration has appealed the ruling, and it remains unclear when the money will arrive or whether recipients will find themselves again facing food insecurity in December.
The appeal has opened up Republicans to Democratic attacks that the GOP is being inhumane, fighting to make it harder for hungry people to eat, despite the judge’s order. “I have never seen an American President so desperate to force children and seniors to go hungry,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) said on X. “This is as ugly and cruel as it gets.”…
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It was only after Democrats swept contests across the nation on Tuesdaythat Trump budged on the government shutdown, blaming the GOP’s bruising losses on the funding gridlock and directing Republicans at a White House meeting to “get the country open.” Vice President JD Vance followed on social media, saying Republicans need to work harder to make a “decent life affordable.”
Americans are divided over whom to blame for the closure of government and its cascading impacts, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll released last week, but more U.S. adults blame Republicans than Democrats. More than 4 in 10 — 45 percent — say Trump and the GOP are mainly responsible.
In MAGA strongholds, loyalty to Trump and his GOP have helped the president elude political consequences for felony convictions and impeachments. Now many of his supporters have extended similar grace during a government shutdown that is emptying the pantries and refrigerators of the most vulnerable Americans.
“Stressful is not a strong enough word,” said Mary Little, an 80-year-old retired nurse and the widow of a Vietnam veteran as she loaded cornbread mix, coffee and cereal into her car outside First United Methodist Church of Bossier City, just four miles from one of Johnson’s district offices….
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