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If we can recall all the way back to Thursday, a federal judge ordered the Trump Admin to fully fund SNAP benefits.
Reporting is now out that, in their appeal, they had the f*^king nerve to state that the federal government would be harmed more by funding SNAP (the funds for which have already been appropriated by Congress) than the people who will actually go hungry and without food.
I’ll let an ABC New reporter take it from here:
“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.”
These are very sick, very bad people. Yes, they are worse than deplorable.
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