Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded after the ruling. That process often takes one to two weeks.
Who’s going to fucking make him?
We are no longer a nation of consequences and without those, the criminals ain’t stopping.
LEGAL CONSEQUENCES aren’t the same as a pissed off hungry mob.
Even the big 'ol honkers with the red hats will roll up against lack of mac.
I’ve seen neither and they are literally bulldozing the fucking White House.
lack of mac.
That’s funny. They will all sit around the table and laugh at “must fund”. After the laugh they’ll ignore it like they always do and find some other law to break.
Meanwhile everyone else will shake their fist fervently and come up with a neat slogan for a sign.
This is truth, borne out by plenty of prior examples.
This might just convince more people that only Trump can save them, and the legislative branch only serves as an obstacle.
Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.
Edit: I’m still all for continuing and expanding SNAP to be clear. No one should be hungry.
It should show that they had the funds all along and have to be forced to use them instead of using the threat of starvation as a cynical political lever. The truth is that MAGA Reps dont want the SNAP program funded, no matter what. They dont give a fuck about poor and hungry children, especially if they can try to pin the blame on Dems. They think poverty is a moral failing and the poor are just a tool to be used.
Poor people have kids that they can farm with impunity…
It’s their main recruitment tactic for military service, since the newer generation aren’t falling for the flag-waving propaganda that previous gens were more susceptible to.
They dont give a fuck about poor and hungry children
Oh, they do. They want them dead. And some of them want to molest them first.
Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.
Yeah but that would take intelligence. Plus he wouldn’t want to risk accidentally helping anyone besides himself.
Yup. He’s gonna continue saying the democrats is keeping the government shut, while he is feeding them. Pathetic people fall for this idiotic bullshit. Then again; republicans are traitors.
They should require they updates all the notices on the govt websites saying:
“The Trump Administration is now forced to fund SNAP despite their best efforts to blame the Democrats”
Is that all we can do now is fantasize about a just world? :/
Ok, and WHEN this admin doesn’t do it, what then?
Then that money gets sent to Argentina
#MAGA
#MAAA (Make America Argentina Again)?
No, just Make Argentina Great Again.
Again? Argentina has never been great.
And american farmers, didn’t I just see they’re working on a bail out? Ya know, the people who mostly voted for this shit show in the first place.
American farmers will never see a penny.
The claim will be that it’s the Dems fault, so they’ll be derided by the gov’t media as society collapses; and much the way an abusive partner blames their victim, it’ll be people being shot in the streets in droves, drones with hellfire missiles being ordered to fire on urban centers, and the administration will just have whatever blonde talking head they choose come out and say “this could have all been avoided but the Dems were allowed to exist for too long and this is what happened. See what they made us do?”
40 million starving Americans might create 1789 France. The asswipe, Just Dumb, survived on government welfare programs to put food on his plate. Hypocritical POS.
I’m lowkey worried he’s shortsighted enough to want food riots, because he thinks he can declare martial law and never leave power that way.
How? This is a terrible court ruling. The president does not control the funds. That’s a constitutionally enumerated power of congress and congress alone. If they have not approved funds there’s no money to pay it.
While I want people to have access for food I want to know what basis this court is using to strip congress of it’s congressional powers and to bestow that to the executive branch.
Gotta love the downvotes and lack of discussion. The next comment provided info not by the news article that cleared it all up. I even agreeded. Guess discourse is dead
The funds in question are already available for emergency use. The administration argued that the government shutdown didn’t count as an emergency. It sounds like the judge considered children, elderly, and disabled people going without food an emergency.
Thanks for providing more coverage and context than the actual news article.
Defining an emergency is definitely within the bounds of the court and sounds much more reasonable.
Wow, a real human being with empathy. It’s refreshing.
doing everything possible to avoid the epstein files of his sordid details. distract the COMPLICIT press from the BBB and the files.
Traditionally, corrupt governments rely on bread and games to placate the hoi polloi.
To no-ones surprise, he is playing games in defiance of the court orders, and 42 million Americans are now without the food support they need.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-defies-court-snap-ruling
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/01/millions-lose-food-aid-snap-trump-shutdown-00632404
tbh did have starving the American population on my bingo card this year. and the worst thing is the people who celebrate it because of some people not spending the money wisely (i agree that maybe buying junk food is a priority when on food stamps) but that according to them is the whole entire country, and lets be honest, its mostly black people they are targeting the most with their “grievances”. That’s the funny thing about these racist fucks, they think someone like me was born yesterday and can’t see through their veiled racism.
What? He won’t be able to starve some kids? That takes all the fun out of it for him.
