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  • Nearly 42 million Americans lose their food stamp benefits

    11/01/2025 11:52:24 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 60 replies
    Politico ^ | 11/01/2025 09:00 AM EDT | Grace Yarrow and Marcia Brown
    The lapse in benefits could be temporary if the Trump administration complies with a recent court order requiring them to use emergency money to fund SNAP. The impact of the food aid lapse will sweep across red and blue states alike: Just over half of all SNAP recipients live in states that backed Trump in last year’s election.More than two dozen Democratic state officials — including those in California, Massachusetts, Kansas and Kentucky — sued the Trump administration over the lapse in benefits in a separate lawsuit that is still pending a formal decision. Republican officials have pointed the blame...
  • Trump says he'll use tariff revenue to bail out farmers

    09/25/2025 10:53:04 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 32 replies
    Politico ^ | September 25, 2025 | Grace Yarrow and Meredith Lee Hill
    President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will use tariff revenue to offer cash bailouts for farmers who are struggling with trade uncertainty and other economic headwinds. “We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “So we’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.” Trump officials expect that Congress will need to...