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gregloa · 61-69, M
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@gregloa now, if we can come back to REALITY for a moment ...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/snap-appeal-trump-administration-faces-harm-people-buy/story?id=127338565
See also:
https://apnews.com/article/snap-benefits-trump-administration-demands-undo-states-d433f20df4d461db506e0d327a58d3c1
Stop trying to disown the shutdown, the only reason it is happening is precisely because the GQP doesn't care and is STILL trying to "repeal and rpleace" the ACA, which Americans have consistently said they do not wish to happen. Only the MAGA elite want this to happen.
Own it.
Own it.
Own it.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/snap-appeal-trump-administration-faces-harm-people-buy/story?id=127338565
There is a paragraph on page 22 of the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments that has to be seen to be believed.
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
In plain English, the Justice Department is telling the court that it would hurt the federal government more to comply with a judge's order requiring full food stamp payments than it would hurt millions of low-income Americans to potentially starve.
Let's simplify this further: the government is arguing that once the money is spent, it can't be unspent (and that would be horrible). But the hungry can't eat tomorrow (and that's not as bad). That is the contention.
In a 40-page filing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the administration insisted that being forced to spend money Congress has already appropriated is a graver injury than the hunger and disruption that would follow from withholding it.
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
In plain English, the Justice Department is telling the court that it would hurt the federal government more to comply with a judge's order requiring full food stamp payments than it would hurt millions of low-income Americans to potentially starve.
Let's simplify this further: the government is arguing that once the money is spent, it can't be unspent (and that would be horrible). But the hungry can't eat tomorrow (and that's not as bad). That is the contention.
In a 40-page filing to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, the administration insisted that being forced to spend money Congress has already appropriated is a graver injury than the hunger and disruption that would follow from withholding it.
See also:
https://apnews.com/article/snap-benefits-trump-administration-demands-undo-states-d433f20df4d461db506e0d327a58d3c1
Stop trying to disown the shutdown, the only reason it is happening is precisely because the GQP doesn't care and is STILL trying to "repeal and rpleace" the ACA, which Americans have consistently said they do not wish to happen. Only the MAGA elite want this to happen.
Own it.
Own it.
Own it.
gregloa · 61-69, M