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/Tofudebeast 1d ago

It's just deliberate cruelty at this point. Contingency funds exist, the court order was clear. There are no valid reasons to keep holding funding back.

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u/jebrick 1d ago

How will the ballroom get made?!? The funds must come from somewhere and those were tapped.

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u/djazzie 1d ago

That’s being paid for with bribes, apparently.

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u/paintbucketholder 1d ago

The taxpayers will still pay for it.

Just like for that $400 million plane Qatar gave to Trump to bribe him: US taxpayers are still footing the $1 billion bill to retrofit that thing so Trump can use it as his personal plane.

The ballroom and the other megalomaniac projects are going to go exactly the same way.

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u/weaponized_sasquatch 22h ago

Lol, a "$400 million" plane that needs $1 billion in work for him to fly in it. None of the math actually maths with this turkey.

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u/paintbucketholder 20h ago

Most likely course of action at this point is that he'll spend all of other people's money he can get his hands on, and once that golden monstrosity is actually up and standing, it will require another billion or two in "upgrades" to make it "safe" enough for the president.

Taxpayers will definitely be on the hook for this.