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President Trump Responds to Judge’s Ruling on SNAP Benefits
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it is not the government's job I would think this would teach people that lesson. When you depend only on the government THEY can take it all away.
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Congress can tax and spend to promote the general welfare of the nation. IMO ensuring citizens are educated and fed comes under that.
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So that video might as well be real. Meaning there needs to be more restricted controls put into place. As opposed to the liberal free-for-all.
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Nope. As I pointed out already, it does not accurately reflect the average purchasing habits of SNAP recipients. Just because something is possible does not mean that it's actually happening.
Needs to be? On what grounds?
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If the food is getting eaten, it's not going to waste. Now, you could argue that it's not the best use of taxpayer money, but we're talking small potatoes in the context of the entire federal budget here. There are tons of examples of much larger wastes of taxpayer money - or taxes simply not being collected.
I'm not necessarily against the idea of putting some restrictions on what SNAP benefits can be used for. However, the holier-than-thou preachiness, and the fact that it only comes up in the defense of people trying to eliminate the program altogether makes me doubt the sincerity of the people so stridently calling for it.
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Yes, there are lots of areas of waste that exist.
Most likely eliminating it altogether is a matter of propaganda. Unless that is members of congress and the senate have stated that as their goal.
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There doesn't need to be a delay, but the Republicans evidently don't care if Americans don't receive food assistance. The reason for a delay is because the states have to recode their eligibility systems with only partial funding.
SNAP could be fully funded today and without any delays if the Republicans wanted to do so. All it would take is for a standalone bill to fully fund SNAP to be brought to the floor, Republicans in Congress to vote yes, and then it moves to the Senate, where Republicans vote yes, and then on to Trump to sign it. There have already been two attempts to do this, once by a Democrat bill in Congress and a bill introduced by 15 Republicans in the Senate, but the Republican leadership refused to allow a vote on it. All 47 Democrats and 2 independents agreed to vote yes. They, along with the 15 Republicans, would have allowed SNAP to be funded before November even got here, and Americans who receive SNAP wouldn't have seen a lapse in their benefits on November 1st.
There has never been a lapse in SNAP benefits during previous shutdowns, and Republicans and the Trump administration are 100% to blame for it happening during this shutdown.
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How in the world is allowing people from Hatti going through war to seek asylum "exploiting?"
How in the world is allowing people from Venuzelua going through the chaos there to seek asylum "exploiting?
And you STILL didn't answer my question. But I don't expect you to, because obfuscation is how you roll.
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well ... I guess we will wait and see what the ruling is.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That is exactly the governments job.
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then they should have very little issue with losing the benefit.
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Judge orders Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits by Friday, rebukes Trump
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make a payment to fully fund SNAP for the month of November by tomorrow.
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Say.... what happened with the totally for sure real tiktok campaign of people promising to storm grocery stores when their SNAP benefits get cut? There must be hundreds of videos coming out of every major city across the country confirming this by now.
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The onus is on the one making the positive claim that the video is true.
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