So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?

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SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

The dems want 1.5T ADDITIONAL spending on Obamacare to keep it going. You aren't getting it in a CR.

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

Yet democrats agreed with every CR previously. Now they don't.

I personally think it's a great way to kill Obamacare and I'm enthusiastic about that!

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

I don't know why you have an OR in there. One never meets the other.

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

Oh the "children". When nothing works, bring the children (or racism) into the debate.

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

Oh the "children". When nothing works, bring the children (or racism) into the debate.

Tell me more about how you all don't care about children. I'm listening.

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

I don't know why you have an OR in there. One never meets the other.

Sure seems like some federal review board was open for Trump, instead of the federal government being open for the People.

[Anonymous]

No CR! They need to pass an appropriations bill. It’s their job!

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Anonymous wrote:No CR! They need to pass an appropriations bill. It’s their job!

Their "job" ... lol. As far as our Congress members are concerned, their job is to look out for the interests of their mega-donors. The other tiring rhetoric you hear out of people like Johnson and Schumer is them saying what they need to say to make their duped sheep think they have the interests of regular American people at heart.

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SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

The dems want 1.5T ADDITIONAL spending on Obamacare to keep it going. You aren't getting it in a CR.

But you are ok with

1) people not having health coverage
2) 40B to argentina
3) 20+ billion to farmers
4) increased prices because of tariffs
5) less federal income because of unfunded tax cuts
6) further consolidation of wealth and control to an oligarch class

You are getting mad at the little people, more than half of whom are Trump voters, instead of the people in control, who are raping our treasury for everything it is worth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

Yet democrats agreed with every CR previously. Now they don't.

I personally think it's a great way to kill Obamacare and I'm enthusiastic about that!

Now they don't because it is the only leverage available to ensure we don't have people literally dying in the streets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

Yet democrats agreed with every CR previously. Now they don't.

I personally think it's a great way to kill Obamacare and I'm enthusiastic about that!

and replace it with what? What would be the new health insurance regime?

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Anonymous wrote:USDA has billions in contingency funds. It has been used to cover SNAP during previous shutdowns. But the Republicans chose to weaponize it instead.

A judge ordered them to pay up from the contingency fund.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251031&instance_id=165552&nl=breaking-news®i_id=72743657&segment_id=209721&user_id=26869c7395f1f5cdbf02703f998a7bbe

And based on reporting, the administration’s attorneys do not believe that the government can tap into those contingency funds. Trump has been very clear that he will distribute the funds so long as he legally can, and is requesting additional guidance from the courts on how to legally distribute the funds.

It’s a breath of fresh air to have a president who actually considers the legality of his actions, unlike Biden who kept trying to forgive student loans for the wealthy elite, and a president who is fighting so hard to get food stamps to those in need despite the democrats’ treasonous actions leading to the prolonged closure of the government.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/snap-hearing-massachusetts-state-lawsuit-trump

You know we have a whole coequal branch of government, composed of presidentially appointed individuals who have the authority to interpret the law and issue binding orders right???

Which is why Trump is asking said branch how to distribute the funds legally.

We are in a situation where a liberal activist judge ordered Trump to do something his attorneys believe is explicitly illegal, and Trump needs to know how they are supposed to do so.

It’s like if you went to court because your neighbor’s fence crosses your property line, and the judge tells you that you can just murder your neighbor.

Did you not watch the schoolhouse rock video in grade school? Trump's attorneys are not the ones who determine legality, the judiciary is.

Which is why he is going to the courts and asking for their guidance. Again, Trump is fighting like hell, in a reality where getting that answer will likely require the government to spend millions on consultation going all the way up to the Supreme Court due to the clearly biased and compromised lower courts, to get deserving Americans their food stamps. Meanwhile, the democrats are sitting there and have voted 19 times specifically to starve our wonderful American patriots.

Why was this not a "battle against the gods" when emergency SNAP-allocated funds were released during previous interruptions in SNAP provision?

WHy can't Trump figure this out, when other presidents could? What is he missing?

Other presidents don't figure it out. They just go with flow and pass the problem down the line.

Some things need to change, because financially, things are becoming mathematically uncertain. He's trying to course correct before we tip over.

Having to pay more in interest on the debt than the entire DoD budget should be a clue. In fact, it should have been a clue decades ago. But problems compound (pun intended).

No, previously these allocated funds were used as intended. They figured out how to do what they were supposed to do.

How can Trump figure out how to tear down part of the White House and build a ballroom during a government shutdown, but he can't figure out this?

The ballroom is privately funded, but kudos to you for arguing the news-du-jour because you can't debate your way out of a paper bag and have no concept of the HISTORY of this country.

It's a federal building. Who signed off on the permits, if the federal government was shut down? Who officially reviewed and signed off on the plans? DC doesn't have a state government running the permit process.

Why was this pushed through during a shutdown, and how?

Who signed off on just opening the border and flooding the zone? Who signed off on debt forgiveness for student loans? Who signed off on firing the IRS personnel when they were getting to close to Biden & Company's illicit finances and influence peddling?

See, many can play this game.

The fake outrage isn't taking you anywhere.

The government is shutdown, and yet permits and plan reviews are going through. I'm just asking why.

And I'm telling you I don't GAS. You play your games. We play ours.

Don't like it, too bad.

Interesting. Either they are building without permits and plan review, or getting that ballroom is more important than hungry children and disabled American citizens getting health care. Which is it?

Oh the "children". When nothing works, bring the children (or racism) into the debate.

The party of life, right?

I guess that only applies when it is in utero.

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SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

Yet democrats agreed with every CR previously. Now they don't.

I personally think it's a great way to kill Obamacare and I'm enthusiastic about that!

We shall see how enthusiastic you are going to be when your employer lay you off. Best of luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
SNAP isn't Obamacare. One is food, the other is health care.

There are emergency funds already allocated AND appropriated to be used if SNAP funding was interrupted -- so why isn't Trump releasing the SNAP (that's food, son) funds, as ordered by a federal judge?

And both are covered under the CR. Dems don't want to agree to it, so suffer.

No, the GOP unilaterally cut SNAP benefits and are letting ACA funding expire. The Dems do not agree to that which is why they don't agree with the CR. And, with recissions, the Executive branch is ignoring the laws already in place and the Dems don't agree with that, either.

The dems want 1.5T ADDITIONAL spending on Obamacare to keep it going. You aren't getting it in a CR.

But you are ok with

1) people not having health coverage
2) 40B to argentina
3) 20+ billion to farmers
4) increased prices because of tariffs
5) less federal income because of unfunded tax cuts
6) further consolidation of wealth and control to an oligarch class

You are getting mad at the little people, more than half of whom are Trump voters, instead of the people in control, who are raping our treasury for everything it is worth.

+1

The general sentiment among smart people is Trump and 95% of our Congress members need to be tossed out on their sorry, corrupt arses.