Posted on 10/30/2025 4:26:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Thursday seemed skeptical of the Trump’s administration’s argument that SNAP benefits could be suspended for the first time in the food aid program’s history because of the government shutdown.
During a hearing over a request by 25 Democratic-led states to keep the funding flowing, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani told lawyers that if the government can’t afford to cover the cost, there’s a process to follow rather than simply suspending all benefits. “The steps involve finding an equitable way of reducing benefits,” said Talwani, who was nominated to the court by then-President Barack Obama.
Talwani said she expects to issue a ruling later Thursday and seemed to be leaning toward requiring the government to put billions of dollars in emergency funds toward SNAP. That, she said, is her interpretation of what Congress intended when an agency’s funding runs out.
“If you don’t have money, you tighten your belt,” she said in court. “You are not going to make everyone drop dead because it’s a political game someplace.”
Talwani acknowledged that even ordering emergency funds to pay for SNAP might still be painful for some SNAP recipients because it could mean they get less money and that the money they do get could be delayed. “We are dealing with a reality that absent a 100% win for you, the benefits aren’t going to be there on Nov. 1,” she told the plaintiffs.
The hearing came two days before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it can’t continue funding it due to the shutdown.
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What .. does this asinine judge think money grows on trees?
But you can call her Dottie.
Total collusion of the Marxist Fed. Judges, “you cant fire people and you can’t cut off benefits”
another judge trying to substitute their judgement for the judgement of the duly elected President.
These are not even judges she’s making political statements from the bench. The Congress hasn’t approved the funds.
I guess she wants the money taken from the defense budget so that our soldiers aren’t paid and we have no defenses anywhere. This is just insanity.
Hunh, I don’t remember seeing Indira Talwani’s name on the presidential ballot...
Benedict Obama stooge,
Education: Radcliffe College (1982), UC Berkeley School of Law
With a built in “go home” button on the fakir Brahman wannabee judge’s center forehead. Maybe she can be deported— how is it she is on the bench... oh, yeah.
ANOTHER foreign judge??? INDIRA??
OMG, these judges are out of control.
Go Caligula on them, force the judges, socialists and the vocal TDSers to feed and house the snappers.
But— “judge-wallah” has the crystal ball! Can’t we see this brilliance written all over the prim and proper persimmon lipped face. Has NO power whatsoever to rule to FORCE expenditure of funds Congress has NOT approved. None— zero, But still they push the buttons in the name of a Lawfare group of cheap skate States (25) who did NOT spend their funds on SNAP sent to them— but spent them... elsewhere.
That is NOT how SNAP works, judgie-pudgie. This is not Kolkata or A Passage to India. Now tell us again how essential it is for the majority of SNAP recipients to spend it on soft drinks, snack food/chips/cheese curls and... candy. How does that work oh wise one?
Trump’s plan?
“If you don’t have money, you tighten your belt,” she said in court. “You are not going to make everyone drop dead because it’s a political game someplace.”
I agree with her first sentence.
The second sentence is foolish hyperbole and shouldn’t be a part of a judge’s discussions in court. Trump is not going to make everyone “drop dead” by not disbursing SNAP benefits.
“Benedict Obama stooge,”
Exactly. The democrats are the ones who refuse to open the government unless their illegal aliens get healthcare benefits via the taxpayers. We elected Trump to do exactly what he’s doing.
Let the democrats sell their houses, cars and stock portfolios to feed the illegals they brought into the US in return for their votes. The taxpayers are NOT an endlessly overflowing money source for the democrat party.
Trump understands this. Democrats DON’T want to understand it.
She has no standing to hear this case, even if one of the plaintiffs is from Massachusetts. This is a state vs Feds case.
Talwani said she expects to issue a ruling later Thursday and seemed to be leaning toward requiring the government to put billions of dollars in emergency funds toward SNAP.What's/who's stopping her from forcing the Democrats to open the entire government?
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