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Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.

The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. Word in October that it would be a Nov. 1 casualty of the shutdown sent states, food banks and SNAP recipients scrambling to figure out how to secure food. Some states said they would spend their own funds to keep versions of the program going.

It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded after the ruling. That process often takes one to two weeks.

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is awesome news. Unfortunately it's going to be appealed, and could take a couple weeks.

But fuck yeah, foods back on the menu, boys

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't forget, in December, the new work requirements mean some of us won't be getting any more SNAP benefits anyways!

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My state always has those requirements. If you're doing what you need, seeing who you need to see for mental/physical health, you should be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Right now it means they have to start the process of paying, the judges' orders are final. They can ask the appeals court for a stay, but until that's granted, they better start depositing benefits.

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    [–] 134 points 1 year ago (41 children)

    So they'll just deny the court order and delay action by appealing, then what?

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What he always does ...... keep ignoring court orders untill rulled in his favour.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty much this. It'll get appealed all the way to the SC, where Thomas will write a decision saying "actually all funding is at the President's sole discretion" and that'll be it.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    I think even that is being generous. With how eager this court has been to genuflect to him, I'd expect the ruling to be something more akin to "On clear reading, all government power and authority is derived from the Executive exclusively, including that which is graciously and magnanimously extended to all other branches of government."

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Good. Appealing this will force him to take ownership of starving people. He will still lie, but maybe a few more people will see the light.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Anyone who hasn't seen the light by now never will.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can't just lose hope, especially when things are getting worse and worse by the week.

    It does take a long time for anything that the federal government does to actually affect your life or someone you know in a noticeable way. Lots of things might get slightly better or worse, but won't be directly attributable to government, like policies that affect the economy. Other things might get MUCH better or worse, but only for a few people at a time.

    Especially if you're dumb, these things can be hard to notice. Some people don't believe us because we've been saying the train is coming for a year now and they haven't seen it. But when they do get hit by it, or they see someone close enough, well... it can start to get through to them.

    And we need those few percentage points. It's important to get people to vote against this shit, assuming we still get to vote at all. Be aware that there's also levels of cheating in voting. If they do things that suppress the vote by 5%, with the extreme shit they're doing, we could gain more than 10 points.

    Voting still matters. Even if they cheat.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It does take a long time for anything that the federal government does to actually affect your life or someone you know in a noticeable way.

    Armed thugs in your city black-bagging people can happen quite suddenly.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a lot of people who are living in a bubble of lies. Sometimes the truth breaks through. That's a chance to shatter the right wing media illusion.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If your holding out hope for the MAGA's to one-day see the light and change their ways, then I urge you to stop. Narcissists and their ilk don't operate like that.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lot are just dupes who got sucked in by right wing media. The truth can break through if it's big enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The truth can break through if it’s big enough.

    Not in a time frame that'll do us any good. Nazi soldiers were dupes too, and we didn't defeat Nazism by laying some sweet reason on them. To the extent that that happened at all, it was part of the cleanup job after they'd lost by other means.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In this case the headline actually works to our advantage. It's clear that Trump is the one fucking with food benefits. Tomorrow, between that and the new healthcare exchange rates being out, he's going to be more unpopular than ever - even some of his base are going to have pitchforks.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    What do you think WE should do about it?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Vote in 2026, flip the House, get a 67 Seat Democratic majority in the Senate, impeach him a 3rd time and actually remove him this time, followed by his mandated jail time on his felony convictions.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    You do know that none of that is going to happen, right?

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Well the question was "what do you think we should do about it", that's what I think we should do. 😉

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    OK, fine. What do you think is likely to happen? And, when that likely thing happens… What do you think we should do about it then?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Most likely event is Trump dies from a stroke before anything meaningful can happen. Then we vote out J.D. Vance in 2028.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Trump's mother died at 88, and his father died at 93. I don't think Trump (who's 79) is in as poor of health as people have been speculating. I'd be genuinely surprised if he had a major stroke anytime soon.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    hes only really overweight, possibly pre-diabetic, doubtful he has any serious symptoms. although he might have circulatory problems. trump is also a extreme germaphobe so he mostly goes the doctor the instant has any "disease", rather than blow it off.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    OK, if you’re just going to tell me to fuck off just say fuck off

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    i dont think many senate seats are up for grabs, its the house seats. until '28 there will be more senate seats in trouble. hence why some of the DNC are so confidant in supporting the Israel genocide of gaza, thier seats are safe.

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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Who’s going to fucking make him?

    We are no longer a nation of consequences and without those, the criminals ain’t stopping.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    LEGAL CONSEQUENCES aren't the same as a pissed off hungry mob.

    Even the big 'ol honkers with the red hats will roll up against lack of mac.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They should require they updates all the notices on the govt websites saying:

    "The Trump Administration is now forced to fund SNAP despite their best efforts to blame the Democrats"

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Ok, and WHEN this admin doesn't do it, what then?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Then that money gets sent to Argentina

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The claim will be that it's the Dems fault, so they'll be derided by the gov't media as society collapses; and much the way an abusive partner blames their victim, it'll be people being shot in the streets in droves, drones with hellfire missiles being ordered to fire on urban centers, and the administration will just have whatever blonde talking head they choose come out and say "this could have all been avoided but the Dems were allowed to exist for too long and this is what happened. See what they made us do?"

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's funny. They will all sit around the table and laugh at "must fund". After the laugh they'll ignore it like they always do and find some other law to break.

    Meanwhile everyone else will shake their fist fervently and come up with a neat slogan for a sign.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    This might just convince more people that only Trump can save them, and the legislative branch only serves as an obstacle.

    Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.

    Edit: I’m still all for continuing and expanding SNAP to be clear. No one should be hungry.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It should show that they had the funds all along and have to be forced to use them instead of using the threat of starvation as a cynical political lever. The truth is that MAGA Reps dont want the SNAP program funded, no matter what. They dont give a fuck about poor and hungry children, especially if they can try to pin the blame on Dems. They think poverty is a moral failing and the poor are just a tool to be used.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Feeding the poor in a very public way is a good way for authoritarians to build good will at very low cost.

    Yeah but that would take intelligence. Plus he wouldn’t want to risk accidentally helping anyone besides himself.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    40 million starving Americans might create 1789 France. The asswipe, Just Dumb, survived on government welfare programs to put food on his plate. Hypocritical POS.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    doing everything possible to avoid the epstein files of his sordid details. distract the COMPLICIT press from the BBB and the files.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Nothing to see here. They'll cry to their pet Supreme Court justices and this will be overruled.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Traditionally, corrupt governments rely on bread and games to placate the hoi polloi.

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    Yikes. Hopefully it happens and the narrative will be that they could have made sure there was no lapse the whole time but were forced to help people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    tbh did have starving the American population on my bingo card this year. and the worst thing is the people who celebrate it because of some people not spending the money wisely (i agree that maybe buying junk food is a priority when on food stamps) but that according to them is the whole entire country, and lets be honest, its mostly black people they are targeting the most with their "grievances". That's the funny thing about these racist fucks, they think someone like me was born yesterday and can't see through their veiled racism.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What? He won't be able to starve some kids? That takes all the fun out of it for him.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    How? This is a terrible court ruling. The president does not control the funds. That's a constitutionally enumerated power of congress and congress alone. If they have not approved funds there's no money to pay it.

    While I want people to have access for food I want to know what basis this court is using to strip congress of it's congressional powers and to bestow that to the executive branch.

    Gotta love the downvotes and lack of discussion. The next comment provided info not by the news article that cleared it all up. I even agreeded. Guess discourse is dead

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The funds in question are already available for emergency use. The administration argued that the government shutdown didn't count as an emergency. It sounds like the judge considered children, elderly, and disabled people going without food an emergency.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Thanks for providing more coverage and context than the actual news article.

    Defining an emergency is definitely within the bounds of the court and sounds much more reasonable.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    It's a GOOD THING the Law and Order Party LISTENS to Judges!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    "Bottom like, the well has run dry" lmao get fucked you soulless ghouls.

    Pros: People will get fed and Republicans are once again caught in their obvious lies and attempts to literally starve the American people

    Cons: Voters will learn nothing from this

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Will he appeal it? Because if he does, well then that's more bad PR for the GOP. Not that I'm complaining.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Further insulating Americans from the effects of their inaction is not by any means a “win.”

    This only strengthens the GOP’s position by reinforcing the idea that government shutdowns don’t matter to everyday citizens- while at the same time ensuring Americans remain comfortable enough that they continue not to fight back.

    The government’s shut down. Great. Everyone still gets their benefits, the military keeps getting paid, ICE keeps being funded. To the Americans perpetuating this MAGA garbage, that sounds fine- and now you’ve ensured that the one thing that might wake them up isn’t going to happen.

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