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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?[/quote]

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

Nope.  ACA subsidies are not covered under the CR.  They expire in current law. The CR does not touch them.  Dems want Rs to add them to the CR.

On the other hand, Congress appropriated $3 bn each for  a contingency fund for SNAP in 2024 and again in 2025. That’s why the admin has nearly $6 bn legally available right now for SNAP (a small portion has been used for something else.).
[/quote]Do you have proof that $6B in contingency funds were already appropriated?[/quote]

DP - it was in the FY 2024 and FY 2025 appropriations bills with $3b each, for a total of $6b, good through September 30, 2026.  This all came out in a court case, where the judge ruled that the Trump administration was incorrect and that they can in fact legally use the contingency fund to continue SNAP.  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/us/politics/trump-food-stamp-payments.html

Anyone claiming "Dems stopped it" or "it's because of the shutdown" or "they don't have the money" or "they have some money but can't legally use it" is wrong.[/quote]

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