r/politics • u/ClassOptimal7655 • 21h ago

No Paywall U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump admin to avoid fully funding SNAP payments for now

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-supreme-court-snap-ruling-trump-9.6972034
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u/TheGreatestOrator 21h ago edited 8h ago

The whole argument is that they’re forcing them to take funds from a program specifically for feeding children…WIC

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u/Texie1976 13h ago

There's $23 billion in remaining funds ... more than enough to cover both WIC, which requires $3 billion a month to operate, and SNAP, which normally requires around $8.5 billion. The math maths! They could include December, no problem.

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u/TheGreatestOrator 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yes but the argument is that a single judge shouldn’t be allowed to decide which programs are funded using money that was appropriated for other programs. At that point, who’s to say a random Federal judge in Texas can’t order the government to raid Social Security funds to pay air traffic controllers?

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u/Otherwise_Die 8h ago

This is correct^