This should REALLY make Trump & Co. More Popular?
I believe that agreement the Senate in fronting to end the shut down funds the Agriculture Dept. , which should fund the SNAP Food Assistance program money for the states…
It’s ptobably gonna take a month or so the get things right…
Image this?
Trump is having lavaish parties in Florida while telling states to cut back food money for Americans?
BTW?
The funding money for the SNAP food program comers from Congress, NOT the President….
The Agiculture Dept administers the program money to the state’s…
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos and uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown.
The Agriculture Department issued the command late Saturday in a memo, which The New York Times later viewed. That guidance threatened to impose harsh financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the new federal orders.
The memo surprised, vexed and frustrated many state leaders, and by Sunday, some had begun to explore their legal options to prevent any further disruptions to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. But the Trump administration held firm in its refusal to fund food stamps in full, telling a court in a strongly worded filing on Sunday that states would be “responsible for the consequences” of their actions.
Caught in the middle were the roughly one in eight Americans who depend on monthly federal assistance to purchase groceries — aid that has been imperiled for days as the shutdown approaches its sixth week. Multiple lawsuits to loosen that money remain unresolved, leaving many families at growing risk of hunger and financial hardship….
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David A. Super, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, said it would not be “legal” for the government to claw back benefits that it had already provisioned without affording people due process.
But, Mr. Super added, the federal government sought to thwart the states that hadn’t completed their work to release full SNAP allotments to low-income families. He said the memo could serve to “scare states partway along the process, and it’s telling the states to turn back.”
Officials in at least one state, Wisconsin, publicly refused to comply with the Trump administration’s new directive, citing the financial harm that it might inflict on residents.
“No,” Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, said in a statement. He said his state would continue to fight “against the Trump administration’s efforts to yank food assistance away from Wisconsin’s kids, families, and seniors.”
Wisconsin officials also criticized the federal government on Sunday for trying to obstruct some of the complicated, behind-the-scenes transactions that help to reimburse grocers that accept SNAP. They brought it to the attention of a federal judge in Massachusetts who is considering a request by roughly two dozen states, including Wisconsin, to force the Trump administration to restore all SNAP funds…..
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This IS ANOTHER ewxample of Trump & Co. NOT knowing WTF they are doing and worse?
Not caring…..
SNAP Update…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday kept in place a pause on a lower-court order that had directed the Trump administration to pay full food-assistance benefits to millions of Americans, preventing federal officials for now from having to provide the aid.
The high court’s order said it was keeping the lower court’s ruling paused through 11:59 p.m. Thursday. The Supreme Court’s order Tuesday evening provided no explanation, as is typical in the court’s responses to emergency requests, but came amid signs that the funding issue could soon be resolved by other government officials….
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