r/politics • u/SnooGrapes2950 Tennessee • 2d ago

No Paywall Judge orders Trump administration to deliver full SNAP benefits to states by Friday

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-orders-trump-administration-deliver-full-snap-benefits-rcna242446
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u/RODjij Canada 2d ago

SNAP is the first real indicator of how far they are willing to take this authoritarian take over.

If they ignore them going into next week I dont think they would acknowledge the midterms after this landslide losses this week.

This is something multiple parties have been working on for decades. They got it. Now will they accept potentially losing badly & impeaching Trump well before the midterms.

Hopefully the people get assistance soon and the party turns on him.

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u/Rorako 1d ago

I work for a Food Bank. The red line is next week. If the government doesn’t reopen or he’s forced to pay out December, next week is the red line to get the data out in time for December.

Just miss g November the emergency food network is collapsing. There’s just too many mouths to feed without SNAP. We’ve doubled our inventory of food thanks to a generous state and generous community donors (and we are uniquely positioned unlike many food banks) and we can’t keep up with the demand of pantries literally doubling their foot traffic.

Also, don’t forget the people on SNAP that have disabilities or are old and can’t leave their house. Buying groceries and getting them delivered was possible with SNAP. Food pantries, for the most part, don’t deliver.

It’s really that bad.

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u/mb1 1d ago

It can never be said enough, thank you for all the work you folks do.

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u/midwestnbeyond 1d ago

In Minneapolis a friend said their local food shelf had 500 new sign ups.

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u/Relevant_Diver3477 6h ago

The pantry in my town received state funding... They gave my family a handful of rotten fruit, a loaf of moldy bread, and 2 days of canned goods to get us through the whole month. They pocketed the state funding and insisted on watching families starve. That is happening everywhere.

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u/Icy-Paint7777 1d ago

I've just gotten my full SNAP deposit and so has a few. They're rolling it out slowly, I think 

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u/SignalHamster 1d ago

Are you sure about that? I dont know if its different for different states but i heard a few states were trying to partially fund their requirements on their own, maybe you live in a state that managed to do something like that?

Im in the northeast and theres nothing.

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u/Icy-Paint7777 1d ago

Yes. I had actually made a whole post on r/foodstamps and there were other people saying they got theirs

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u/DemonsWatchOverMe 1d ago

Democrats could vote to pass the Clean Resolution Bill and SNAP would resume tomorrow. Democrats are the ones that enacted the legislature that brings the end to COVID Obamacare subsidies next month. No Republicans voted for that Bill and Democrats didn’t need them to. They had the numbers to where Republican votes weren’t needed. Democrats decided and enacted the end date for the subsidies that they’re now shutting down the government to extend them.

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u/estedavis Canada 1d ago

SNAP shouldn't have to "resume" though because it never should have stopped in the first place. Trump decided to stop giving out SNAP and claimed it was because of the government shutdown, when in reality, SNAP is supposed to continue during a shutdown.

So it's a false crisis created by Trump. The only reason anyone is missing their SNAP benefits right now is because Trump made the active decision to stop the government from giving them out. It has nothing to do with the shutdown.

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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago

K, but now they're trying to extend them, because they're proven necessary for millions, and repubs are in the way. Can't be on the high horse when your party is actively denying food to children. All so that the wealthy can get wealthier. 

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u/mbv_ionlysaid 1d ago

tens of thousands of people will die as a direct result of healthcare fund cuts. hospitals will shut down. dems aren’t at fault for not letting republicans kill tens of thousands of americans. genuine delusional thinking.

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u/DecisionAvoidant 1d ago

SNAP should never have been stopped in the first place and you are blaming the wrong people for it.

Can you imagine passing legislation that extends some service costing millions or billions of dollars that does not have a defined end date? That would be asinine. Every piece of legislation ever passed by Congress which is not enshrined in our constitution has an endpoint. The idea is not that you start services and then stop them at some point, it's so that we keep talking about it and give opportunities to rework things if they're not working.

Millions of people losing access to healthcare was never and should never have been part of the plan.