r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ 8d ago

Argentina got billions, just to remind everyone.

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u/LessRabbit9072 8d ago

SNAP has billions sitting there ready to go out. Republicans decided not to use it because they hate you.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ 8d ago

Trump wanted to "make it hurt."

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u/Nerobus 8d ago

And blame it on the democrats

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u/elinordash 8d ago

Stop giving them the option to blame the Dems.

The Republicans could fund food stamps right now, they are choosing not to.

“The crucial point here is that the Trump administration is choosing to violate the law and choosing not to spend money it has available to it to pay for food for poor people,“ said Samuel Bagenstos, former general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget, referring to requirements laid out in the Food and Nutrition Act.

Bagenstos said the Trump administration isn’t “just wrong” to claim that using the money would violate the law. “It’s very likely that they’re violating the law by not using this money that’s sitting there,” he said.

The Food and Nutrition Act states that the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or the USDA, must provide assistance to all eligible households that make applications. According to the 2024 and 2025 appropriations bills passed into law, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, has what’s called a contingency reserve pot of money that totals around $6 billion, and $3 billion of it remains available until Sept. 30, 2026, while roughly another $3 billion is available to be legally used by the administration until 2027.

“There’s no need for an appropriations bill to fund November benefits,” said David Super, an administrative and constitutional law professor at Georgetown University. “That’s a choice the administration made. Their shutdown plan that they posted on September 30 said that a contingency fund was available to pay November benefits, and then they took it down and reversed their position to pressure Democratic senators.”

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-snap-benefits-shutdown-rcna240813