Trump offers food-stamp relief to Dems’ hostages — – Latest News
President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the ache Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp households with their authorities shutdown, which would be the longest ever if it continues by Wednesday.
Rather than cut off funds after the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out of money this weekend, Trump & Co. will cowl no less than partial advantages, utilizing money from a contingency fund meant for food during natural disasters.
The president doesn’t need to see the 42 million Americans who depend upon food stamps have to wrestle any more than needed — plus, as ever, he’s complying with legitimate courtroom orders directing the funds to proceed (even when the judges in query are doubtless to be overruled by greater courts).
“President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefit,” famous Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.
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Last week, Trump himself mentioned on Truth Social that if the courts present legal direction, “it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding” for food-stamp advantages.
But make no mistake: Dems are nonetheless holding SNAP recipients hostage; the partial funds will solely cowl 50% of their typical advantages, leaving them painfully short. And they will count on important delays in getting even that.
Democrats overtly admit they care more about forcing Republicans to spend an additional $1.5 trillion on numerous bailouts than on reopening the federal government.
This “is one of the few leverage times we have,” confesses House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.).
If “you reopen the government . . . we lose our leverage,” warns Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Sorry, however shutting the federal government was by no means meant to be a device used to drive the opposite aspect to go large new laws.
Democrats could be howling if Republicans used the filibuster to pull such a stunt; certainly in previous shutdown fights they’ve relentlessly condemned the GOP for not agreeing to a “clean” stopgap-spending invoice precisely just like the one Dems now keep blocking.
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It’s past pathetic that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer feels compelled to appease their celebration’s deranged base with this nonsense.
Too unhealthy for SNAP households.
And federal staff, like air-traffic controllers, who aren’t being paid.
And airline passengers plagued with delays as some controllers keep home.
Trump is correct to say he “won’t be extorted.” If you give in to hostage-taking at present, you’ll solely see more of it tomorrow. And this not how democracy is meant to work, although we guess it’s the “democracy” Democrats keep insisting they’re combating for.
Average Americans ought to make sure that no Democratic lawmaker who shut down the federal government ever will get their vote again.
