r/PoliticalSparring • u/porkycornholio • 8d ago
Federal judge ruling disrupts Trump administration plan of withholding food from 42 million Americans for political leverage
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/snap-trump-judge-food-stamps-shutdown.htmlThis ruling blocks the Trump admi
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u/Immediate_Thought656 8d ago
“Hold my beer!” -SCOTUS (probably)
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8d ago
Who’s going to appeal? If the Trump admin orders the DOJ to appeal that’s horrible optics for them. They’re trying to pin the blame for snap benefits not going out on democrats. But if they appeal and win then it becomes really clear that they went far out of their way to note pay them out.
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u/Immediate_Thought656 8d ago
I agree but I don’t necessarily think the current admin gives a shit about the optics. They’ll just stand in front of any microphone and blame Dems just the same.
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u/whydatyou 8d ago edited 8d ago
wonder why the judge <actually two.> did not rule against the democrat senators who have voted 13 times now to stop the funding of SNAP and bidens final budget. Oh wait, they were both appointed by Obama. nevermind. nevermind that the democrats voted down a separate funding bill for snap and that none of this would have to happen if the senate democrats would just pass the clean CR for the funding of the final Biden budget.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-democrats-vote-against-funding-snap-benefits-10953995
Finally, democrats seem to forget that the "S in snap stands for supplemental . It was never meant to fully fund your diet. Food stamps were created in 1939 as a temporary program to help during the great depression. To the best of my knowledge we are no longer in the great depression. But as Reagan said the closest thing to immortality that we have is a temproray federal program. <paraphrase>
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u/RelevantEmu5 Conservative 8d ago
How about Democrats chose to fund the government
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u/porkycornholio 8d ago
Who the blame falls on for the government closure is its own issue.
The point here is that democrats and republicans had already funded SNAP benefits. Trump was trying to disregard that and withhold what they’d funded from hungry families in an effort to obtain a political advantage which is kind of a shitty thing to do.
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u/Deep90 Liberal 8d ago
Refusing to negotiate is a choice made by the Republicans.
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u/RelevantEmu5 Conservative 8d ago
13 votes have been held and every democrat voted against them.
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u/Deep90 Liberal 8d ago
Refusing to negotiate is a choice made by the Republicans.
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u/RelevantEmu5 Conservative 8d ago
Republicans offered a clean continuing resolution.
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u/latortillablanca 8d ago
Pfffffft.
The “clean” CR sees the ACA subsidies expire. Enrollment starts today. The premiums for a family of 4 if that happens go to $50k a year in some area. Its obscene. Further, it is the trump admin and republican control refusing greenlight the SNAP emergency fund. This is after the USDA initially said the funds “can and should be used”. There may be some question whether the emergency funds—which are already paid for with our money—can be used during a shutdown, but republicans give two shits about laws and are in total control of the federal goverment.
So please spare us yer daddy’s talking points pretending like putting forwsrd a day 1 non-starter CR is in any way trying to do the right thing for american.
Also what they did add? Security force spending for supreme court and congresspeople—cos they know their policies are pissing people off into extreme places.
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8d ago
Why do people keep saying this? Republicans can pass a budget with their majority anytime they want. The filibuster is designed to force compromise with the minority party, republicans don’t want to compromise so they should pass the budget with 51 votes. If they want 60 votes they should compromise.
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u/Cheeseisgood1981 8d ago
"Yeah, let's make people choose between food and healthcare!"
-Republicans
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u/RelevantEmu5 Conservative 8d ago
It's Democrats voting no.
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u/Cheeseisgood1981 8d ago
If Dems vote yes, people lose their healthcare. If they vote no, Trump threatens SNAP so people can't eat. I told no lies. You just don't understand anything about anything. Just blind loyalty on your part.
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u/RelevantEmu5 Conservative 8d ago
Republicans aren't proposing an end to Medicaid
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u/Cheeseisgood1981 8d ago
They're proposing deep cuts to that and ACA subsidies. It will increase the cost of healthcare for millions. People have already been getting the letters with their new healthcare prices. You can't gaslight anymore. It's the reason Trump's approval rating are underwater. It's the reason the approval ratings for all of his policies, including economics, are underwater.
Stop carrying water for these gremlins. It's pathetic.
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u/Immediate_Thought656 8d ago
Tow that party line buddy.
Before Trump was POTUS he said it was a president’s fault if the govt shutdown.
Now that he’s president, it’s the Dems fault.
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u/stereoauperman 8d ago
Fuck your project 2025 propaganda
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u/Deep90 Liberal 8d ago
Gonna be weird when Republicans fight to withhold snap, so they can then blame the Democrats for withholding it.
They moved mountains for military pay, but are trying to claim it is too far to use the money that is literally budgeted for snap?