Posted on 11/06/2025 2:08:58 PM PST by Miami Rebel
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid under the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the shutdown.
The order, issued by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, marked his second legal rebuke of the administration for actions that threatened to leave millions of Americans at risk of financial hardship.
Reading his directive from the bench after a short but tense hearing, Judge McConnell sharply criticized the administration for ignoring his original order last week to quickly restart payments for SNAP, or food stamps. .... By its own admission, the Agriculture Department had ample funds to continue the program. But it took the intervention of two federal courts, including an order by Judge McConnell, before Mr. Trump’s deputies moved to restart food stamp payments.
Shortly after the judge’s first directive, the Trump administration announced it would provide partial payments under SNAP this month. But many local officials quickly objected to what they saw as a set of punitive and needlessly complex rules, warning that the work to implement them could delay food stamp payments for weeks.....
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Take it out of the funds for the arts.
wy69
Yay, another judge telling the President what to do. 🤦♀️
I read 58% are illegals. Probably not correct but surely some. Biggest thing cases like this cause is people see it as therefore Trump’s fault people will go hungry.
Time for Andrew Jackson 2.0
With what monies?
Take the money from judicial salaries.
Remember, we have no Obama judges and no Trump judges according to the supreme court.
Take the money from the federal judiciary’s paychecks.
The judge should order the gravity constant to be reduced to 25ft/sec**2 so they don’t feel so overweight.
President McConnell from Rhode Island!!!
Judge should have to pay it. No decent judge would order a Govt that’s hugely in debt to fully pay a lot of illegal people US tax dollars.
Imagine judges ordering the federal govt to pay for specific programs.
No such thing as budgets then
Trump needs to tell the Judge to focus on getting funding from Congress.
Otherwise it’s unConstitutional.
Someone tell the judge the government is shutdown ,LOL
where the f00k are the republican (Trump) judges ordering everything that we want restored/passed/ordered...
If all the lib sheet gets allowed, let’s do our sheets
Makes you wonder which branch of government his order is directed at. It’s not like Trump holds the checkbook. I agree with what some have said. Order the Dems to pass the CR. And good luck either way.
Yeah, judge got no right. Can’t do that. Yada, yada, yada.
But if past is predicting the future, this administration will find some way of appeasing the overreaching judge while running yet another appeal up the flag pole. If they are concerned about impeachment, it isn’t going to get any better after the mid-terms if they are seen as this weak.
Well then - if the President has the power to unilaterally fund things, what do we need Congress to pass anything for?
Trump should just order the government to be funded and be done with it. I mean, if he has that power, according to this judge...
So much for the Left being against dictatorship.
Why doesn’t the judge order democrats to stop pushing medicaid and SNAP for foreigners?
oh, that’s right... because the judge is part of the deep state machine run by progressive democrats
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