Another Donald talking Bull Shit from the ‘Gut’….
They’ll follow the judge’s order….
His Treasury Sec. says the money WILL be there by midweek…
The Federal judge gives the Republican’s a way AROUND Trump and Vought…...
Bessent says US food aid benefits could flow by Wednesday
President Donald Trump wants to hear from the courts how to fund SNAP food aid benefits for needy Americans and payments could flow by Wednesday as ordered by a U.S. judge, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday.
Asked if that could be done to meet a federal judge’s order that partial payments begin Wednesday, Bessent said, “Could be.” Bessent also said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Trump administration will not appeal the court ruling.
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“Millions of low-income Americans are losing access to food aid as the nation’s largest anti-hunger program goes dark for the first time,” Politico reports.
“Congress failed to reopen the government before funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out Saturday. A federal judge, in an eleventh-hour decision, directed the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food aid in November — but even that wasn’t enough to prevent the immediate lapse of benefits, which officials say could take weeks to resume.”
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New York Times: “In what may become the longest federal stoppage in history, the president has frequently bent the rules of budget, primarily to reap political benefits or exact retribution. He has found new and untested ways to spare certain Americans, like the military, from the pain of the government closure, while claiming he has no power to help others, including low-income individuals who rely on benefits like SNAP.”
“The result is a shutdown unlike any other, one that has posed disparate and debilitating risks for those unlucky enough to depend on the many functions of government that Mr. Trump has long aspired to cut.”
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