In a SNAP, Trump blamed for blocking food assistance to low-income families

Let's enactment authorities aside, arsenic if that were possible, and look astatine however the craziness of the past fewer days is affecting people.

A week ago, President Donald Trump announced that the 42 cardinal Americans connected the SNAP nutrition programme would not beryllium getting their benefits — this against the backdrop of a authorities shutdown that has present reached its 40th day.

This against the backdrop of millions of national workers who person not been paid portion the shutdown drags connected — and galore of whom unrecorded paycheck to paycheck.

This against the backdrop of Trump throwing a lavish, Great Gatsby-themed Mar-a-Lago bash wherever guests successful ceremonial deterioration watched opera and feasted connected bluish food mousse, sliced beef filet, seared scallops and Trump cocoa cake.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CITES WIDESPREAD MISUSE OF SNAP AS FUNDING LAPSES DURING SHUTDOWN

President Donald Trump speaks during a meal with Senate and House Republicans successful the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, successful Washington.  (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Meanwhile, a national justice ordered the medication to resume SNAP benefits, which outgo $8.5 cardinal a month, but the Supreme Court gave Trump clip to appeal.

And erstwhile astatine slightest 9 states said they would wage for SNAP benefits during the crisis, Trump ordered them to "immediately undo" immoderate effort to supply nutrient stamps to lower-income families — oregon look fiscal penalties.

Let’s see: however does this marque the president look?

I hatred this word, but what are the optics of this determined effort to halt these benefits from reaching bare families?

After all, erstwhile a affluent donor pal, Timothy Mellon, a banking and railroad heir, offered $130 cardinal to guarantee that American troops get paid during the shutdown, Trump seized the opportunity.

After all, the Trump taxation chopped was tilted toward the wealthy.

After all, Trump has further chopped superior gains taxes connected location income that volition mostly payment the affluent and wealthy, enabling galore to wage zero, oregon a reduced rate, connected these sales. If you are wholly unaware of this, you astir apt don’t qualify.

TRUMP ADMIN WARNS 42 MILLION AMERICANS COULD LOSE FOOD STAMPS AS SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON

After each — this whitethorn person been the weirdest happening — Trump said Obamacare is truthful unspeakable that helium wants to nonstop radical $2,000 checks truthful they tin bargain their ain insurance.

But, wherever would they bargain it, if not from an security company? And what would they bash if the banal marketplace plunged? There's a crushed that privatization of wellness security has ne'er gone anywhere.

So to travel backmost to authorities (inevitably), however does immoderate of this assistance Trump?

I get the conception that he's trying to boost the symptom level truthful that Democrats volition extremity the shutdown connected his terms.

A national justice ordered the medication to resume SNAP benefits, which outgo $8.5 cardinal a month, but the Supreme Court gave Trump clip to appeal. (J. Scott Applewhite, File/AP Photo)

The Democrats, who person made soaring Obamacare premiums a cardinal portion of their transportation — and fearfulness millions volition suffer sum unless expiring subsidies are extended — person hung connected longer than anyone expected.

For what it’s worth, some sides merit a ton of blasted for failing to support the lights connected during this endless blasted game, alternatively than enactment retired a compromise, which is what we wage them to do.

But don't Trump and JD Vance, who called the judge’s bid "absurd," look similar they don’t peculiarly attraction if millions of families spell hungry, oregon are taking nutrient from dumpsters?

Seriously, is determination an alternate explanation?

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Blaming the different broadside is good for the accustomed governmental amusive and games. But doing it during this benignant of self-inflicted crisis?

With the absorption throwing retired charges of cruelty, is determination immoderate 9 — dimensional chess level connected which this helps Trump?

Trump says erstwhile President Joe Biden "went wholly crazy" and handed retired nutrient stamps to "anybody that would ask." So is this liberalism gone wild? I decided to bash a small digging.

Turns retired determination are income limits, and those successful the programme indispensable conscionable enactment requirements. What’s more, the oft-repeated complaint that amerciable immigrants are getting SNAP benefits is simply untrue, though determination are exemptions for children and refugees. (Obviously, you tin ne'er wholly regularisation retired instances of fraud.)

"SNAP/EBT Food Stamp Benefits Accepted" is displayed connected a surface wrong a Family Dollar Stores Inc. store successful Chicago, connected Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

During the pandemic, erstwhile unemployment soared, Congress passed an exigency measurement that temporarily suspended a enactment request for adults without dependents who were susceptible of holding jobs. This happened nether … President Trump, successful his archetypal term, successful 2020.

Under a woody with Republicans successful 2023, enactment requirements for SNAP were increased. That happened nether … Biden. Some Republicans, meanwhile, said the measurement didn’t spell acold enough.

By the way, SNAP information peaked successful the autumn of 2017, nether Trump, which was related to hurricane emergencies.

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Sorry for the green-eyeshade stuff, but I thought it was worthy much research.

Most radical don’t person the clip oregon involvement successful excavating the details. They conscionable cognize they aren’t getting the nutrient assistance they expected and that neither are millions of different lower-income families. And particularly with his dogged determination to artifact the states from helping out, galore are holding Trump accountable.