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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Well, the government is still collecting taxes, isn't it? "They've got the money." < / s >
LET’S GET THE TRUTH OUT:
IT IS NOT 42 MILLION AMERICANS:
IT IS ABOUT 24 MILLION ILLEGALS & ABOUT 18 MILLION AMERICANS
THEY TOTALLY ARE DOUBLE DIPPING
Maybe these judges should read the constitution.
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Or even just read the recent decision stating that District Judges cannot fiat rules for the whole nation. They only have jurisdiction over their district.
Bunch of dumb-ass Know it alls.
The argument isn’t that the President can unilaterally fund SNAP. The argument is that SNAP has already been funded by Congress yet the President isn’t releasing those reserves.
Does that level of funding actually exist?
Yes,taxes are being collected, especially from companies that usually pay quarterly estimated taxes, which they then apply to their final year end tax requirement.
However, all spending is what Congress budgets and allocates as the “legal” spending allowed. Right now, with no “continuing resolution” Congress has not set any “legal” spending.
Trump’s lawyers need to tell the judge he is not the United States Congress and his writ cannot command what Congress has not allocated.
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