Posted on 11/01/2025 6:17:00 AM PDT by Libloather
With no deal in place to reopen the government and no action from the administration to make up for a funding shortfall in federal benefits, millions of Americans are at risk of losing food benefits starting on Saturday.
The argument raging in the Senate mirrors the same argument that has so far seen the government shutdown for 32 days.
Senate Democrats contend that with the stroke of a pen — like on expiring Obamacare subsidies — President Donald Trump could easily see the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps, funded as the shutdown drags on.
"We don't want to pit healthcare and food, [Republicans] do," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. "We think you can have both."
But congressional Republicans and the administration argue that food stamp benefits, and numerous other government programs, could be fully funded if Schumer and his caucus would unlock the votes to reopen the government.
Democrats are suing the Trump administration in part over its refusal to use the SNAP emergency fund, which they contend has about $5 billion, to fund the program. But a recent memo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) argued there was no legal standing to use the fund and that federal SNAP funds would run dry by Nov. 1 if Democrats did not vote to end the shutdown.
A pair of federal judges ruled on Friday that the administration would have to pay out the food stamp benefits for November, either in full or partially.
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins affirmed the memo during a Friday press conference, "There is a contingency fund at USDA, but that contingency fund, by the way, doesn't even cover, I think, half of the $9.2 billion that would be required for November SNAP."
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You need to see your Dr immediately. THAT is not a normal configuration.
are the gov’t workers who would program this even at work, “essential workers”? if transferring funds involves banking system, and all the calculations for who gets what can be done immediately, nothing could hit until Monday at the earliest. and that would be quite a stretch for the government...
EXACTLY!
The Snapper porkers have already said they are going to loot any building that has food in it so they can continue filling the America’s sewage plants. 400 million Americans are afraid they are going to starve. It’s only that worthless 42 million who are in trouble. I recommend that the 42 million piggies be moved to New Yawk City so their boy Hans Gruber Dammami can feed them with his free food stores.
Call the democrats they stopped it.
Trump needs to tell those to New England Craphole, Dipstick Court skanks to go take a flying leap at a rolling donut. They don’t have the authority to make Executive or legislature decisions. They’ve never been elected to do anything by the American people. Toss all of their skanky keisters out!
Thats the way you do it, money for nothing on my EBT.I want my,I want my EBT
[Chorus]
(Our food’s in jeopardy, baby)
(Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh)
(Our food’s in jeopardy, baby)
(Ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh)
That which the government gives, it will take away. They may still maintain the bureaucracy, but that's where it will end. The best relationship one can maintain with any government and their agencies is to be an undetectable fart in the wind. Go Galt. Be an amorphous entity. One without shape, substance, or form.
My heart is bleeding purple peanut butter. I guess I need to go see the doctor as well.
The program has been abused for too long and it's time for a reckoning for these freeloaders.
Newsmax:
“45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.”
“42% of Somali immigrants, 34% of every immigrant from Iraq, 23% of Haitians.”
“59% of ALL illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. Government and the U.S. Taxpayer are not even Americans.”
Get those two skanky Dipstick Court Jugheads to come up with the money to buy the non-working fatties some food. If I didn’t have money to buy food, you can bet your sweet keister I wouldn’t sit on the sofa starving to death while watching “Da View”. When I was a kid, I learned to fish with a “drop line”. I learned to hunt with a .22. I sure as hell wouldn’t go hungry watching the Da View of the Ugly Broads. I think these 42 million crybabies NEED TO STARVE TO DEATH.
I work PT at a grocery store just outside the hood and we have been going through active shooter training. Wide open isles of food doesn’t give you much protection.
The Democrats are counting on it.
It’s because they are too fat to do physical labor.
“Let them eat Schumer.”
They could apply to be ocean jetties to protect towns from raging seas
Get a Job!
An acquaintance, , who inherited tons of money, gets $60 a month in food benefits. If she doesn’t get them, it won’t hurt . I wonder how many other recipients are like this.
Genuinely poor families with little kids will suffer. I think there’s such a thing as a food bank where they can pick up groceries.
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