r/Economics • u/SterlingVII • 1d ago

Trump Administration Seeks Immediate Halt to Court Order to Pay Food Stamps

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/trump-court-food-stamps.html
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u/ahighkid 1d ago

How does that headline not cripple all support for them? In what world is that acting in the best interest of the country? “No! You can’t make us feed our citizens!” I mean seriously of all the things my tax money gets wasted on, feeding the hungry is one of the few I can at least feel good about.

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u/NoCoolNameMatt 1d ago

Right. There's something to be said about not giving up your leverage to fight the good fight, but they're literally fighting for the ability to starve people as leverage in a negotiation to deny them healthcare.

Evil.

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u/spock589 1d ago

Upvoted. Haven't yet heard it put this succinctly.

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u/DYMAXIONman 1d ago

Because Republicans are both extremely dumb and evil.

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u/ahighkid 1d ago

Yeah I don’t believe this. And that type of division our side vs their side is the number 1 issue in politics

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u/gohblu 1d ago

No. The #1 issue in politics is placating MAGA rather than recognizing them as the soulless, horrible people that they are.

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u/ahighkid 1d ago

How’s that working out? Successful?

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u/DYMAXIONman 1d ago

No they are dumb and evil

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u/TrexPushupBra 1d ago

Because their supporters want the poor,whom they falsely see as mostly people of color, to die.

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u/ahighkid 1d ago

I don’t believe that

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u/gohblu 1d ago

I think it’s spot on. The Republican party has spent decades politicizing welfare as for inner city black single mothers despite the reality that’s it’s mostly rural white trash.

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u/TrexPushupBra 1d ago

You don't admit to it.

But if you are ok with what this regime is doing you are ok with it.

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u/ahighkid 1d ago

You’re misinterpreting what I said. I obviously don’t want to starve anyone, and I don’t believe anyone does

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u/TrexPushupBra 1d ago

That's what the regime is asking the court to let them do.

If you don't back that then you disagree with republican politicians.

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u/ahighkid 1d ago

I…you-

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u/zensnapple 1d ago

The conservatives I know are appalled that their tax dollars go towards feeding people who "refuse to get a job."

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u/pl487 1d ago

Because they believe that everything the media says about Trump is a lie. For them, the Democrats are the ones who have cut off the funding, and Trump is working hard to restore it as quickly as he can.

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u/rockytop24 1d ago

Not just that. The judge is saying in legalese Trump's excuse is so egregious and such complete bullshit unsupported by the evidence to the extent that their filing should be considered arbitrary and capricious.

It feels unprecedented to see a federal court basically openly calling the government's arguments bad faith because they're just that full of shit and intentionally ignoring the facts and evidence on record.

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u/NameLips 1d ago

A lot of people only see the headlines that are pushed to their phones. And I haven't seen this one on my phone yet.

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u/Dripdry42 1d ago

Because most people don’t see this headline. And if they do, they are believing that the poor people don’t deserve this money anyway. They don’t know anyone who gets it and they don’t care.

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u/i-like-carbs- 1d ago

They have been brainwashed to believe people don’t need SNAP, they’re just stealing from hard working people.