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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11m Americans. 34 million Illegal Aliens.
Ooh…. The Uniparty wants riots in the streets sooo bad…. They’re about to get them. Hegseth didn’t create a rapid response force for the Guard for nothing
Yeah screw the elderly, people on disability, military families that rely on it. But hey, we can pay for the pensions of every single Ukrainian and know one gives a sh*t about that. Our government acts like Oprah giving foreign aid out. “You get some money! And you get some money!” But to hell with our own. All the people mad at us taking care of our own people disgust me
...(SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps....
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Only because idiot “journalists” keep using it.
The SNAPanese will not be happy.
But this shutdown will be exposing the fact that many illegals are being given government help in the form of SNAP and WIC and who know what else.
Agree completely. I’ve paid taxes all my life. At one point in my young life I stuffed sheets of the San Diego Union into my Chuck Converse sneakers, the rubber soles were so thin.
I’ve never applied for or accepted public welfare. It’s past to emancipate our ‘dependents’ who could be supporting themselves.
Illegals? Further welfare for them, that’s out of the question. They shouldn’t be here. They aren’t prisoners. Send them back!
If the GOP wants to win another election, ever, it will stand up these statist bullies & spendthrifts, the “democrats”.
Is that all? They need to be arrested and deported. If actual citizens they need to lose ALL benefits forever.
Of course, I'm never unarmed, so I'm just as likely use my phone to blast out "Welcome to the Jungle" as loudly as possible and then ambush them when they come to investigate it. In my state,by law, I only have to justify the first shot - all others are considered justified, so long as I don't stand over them and issue a Coup de Gras with a shot to the head...
thanks for posting this needs to be spread far and wide
Exactly. My dad lived the same way. I’m not telling the stories here now...yet. This grift MUST stop. Those enabling it MUST go to prison. I am at end point.
Good to see you still here old-timer.
Respectfully,
Class of '98 member
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