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Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2025
Looks like manbaby is in trouble with the courts again...
"A federal judge in Boston indicated Thursday that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.
“Right now, Congress has put money in an emergency fund for an emergency, and it’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency when there’s no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits,” US District Judge Indira Talwani said near the end of a hearing, referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps.
Though the judge’s options vary, one possibility is that she issues an emergency order that essentially compels the administration to tap into the emergency funds. While she indicated from the bench that she was likely to issue a ruling favorable to a group of Democratic attorneys general and governors who sued the administration earlier this week, she acknowledged that benefits, which should start being sent to recipients on November 1, will be delayed.
“We’re dealing with the reality that … the benefits aren’t going to be there on November 1,” she said.
Talwani said she would work quickly to issue her decision later Thursday.
Nearly 42 million Americans receive food stamps, a critical piece of the nation’s safety net. The program costs roughly $8.5 billion to $9 billion a month, while the contingency fund now has about $5.3 billion in it, according to court filings submitted by the Justice Department, which is representing USDA in the case.
If the judge orders the government to use the emergency funds, it will take time for the US Department of Agriculture and states to get their systems up and running again, which means at least some beneficiaries will likely have to wait for the November allotment.
It’s also unclear whether recipients will receive their full November benefits since the USDA’s contingency fund does not have enough money to cover the entire payments without drawing from other resources. But the Trump administration has shifted money to fund other priorities during the shutdown, including transferring $300 million to keep the WIC food assistance program for pregnant women, new moms and young children afloat for October."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/boston-judge-intervene-snap-payments
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Syne - Oct 31, 2025
This ruling obviously violates the separation of powers. Especially when democrat senators can restore benefits immediately. This is an Obama judge running partisan cover for congressional democrats.
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2025
Quote:This is an Obama judge
IOW, a judge upholding the law impartially with no regard for Trump's political agenda. Great! More power to her!
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Syne - Oct 31, 2025
If you quoted the whole sentence (and could comprehend simple English) you wouldn't have to guess what it means.
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Yazata - Oct 31, 2025
(Oct 31, 2025 02:27 AM)Syne Wrote: This ruling obviously violates the separation of powers. Especially when democrat senators can restore benefits immediately. This is an Obama judge running partisan cover for congressional democrats.
Right. Her ruling will almost certainly be overturned on appeal.
The Constitution gives Congress "the power of the purse". They are the ones who vote (or fail to vote) funding for various purposes.
Judges can't assume that power for themselves and unilaterally decide for themselves where money must be spent.
Just as individual judges can't assume for themselves the powers of the Presidency, overrule the President and issue their own orders to the Executive branch.
I think that the democrats are smart enough to know this. Basically all of this is political theater. They are demonstrating to their base that they are resisting Trump.
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2025
Typical MAGA response..."oh it's not her job to tell Trump how to spend money. It's illegal."
It's not about laws. It's about doin the right thing and keeping food on the tables of 47 million Americans. If you can't comprehend the importance of that, you've lost the whole point of this program's existence. It's probably on the chopping block anyway of govt services to be eliminated by Trump, whose fat ass no doubt dines sumptuously every night in golden banquet halls..
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Yazata - Oct 31, 2025
(Oct 31, 2025 05:31 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Typical MAGA response..."oh it's not her job to tell Trump how to spend money. It's illegal."
It's not about laws. It's about doin the right thing and keeping food on the tables of 47 million Americans.
So maybe the democrats should vote to fund the government? It's their refusal to do so that keep SNAP (and so much more) unfunded.
Quote:If you can't comprehend the importance of that, you've lost the whole point of this program's existence. It's probably on the chopping block anyway of govt services to be eliminated by Trump, whose fat ass no doubt dines sumptuously every night also on taxpayer money.
Do democrats really want to ignore the rule of law? And go instead solely on their feelings? Isn't that 'authoritarianism'?
If the Republicans did the same thing, couldn't they start by ignoring the rulings of activist judges simply because they disagree with the ruling or because it offends them some way? Just do whatever they damn well please?
This whole line of argument would be kind of self defeating if everyone thought that way. So the democrats adopt their hidden premise, that laws only exist to control the deplorable masses, while the democrat elite are not only left free, but encouraged to follow their oh-so-superior woke moral feelings that preempt the laws that bind all the lesser beings beneath them.
If democrats expect the Constitution to restrict Trump, then democrats have to be subject to it themselves.
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2025
The Democrats have nothing to do with Trump not making funds available for SNAP. It was done already for paying our military.. It could be done again.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/snap-food-stamps-lawsuit-25-states-trump-administration/
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Syne - Oct 31, 2025
SNAP benefits cost 9 billion a month. The contingency fund only has about 5 billion. It is irresponsible to spend your contingency when you have no idea when it will be replenished, and democrats are refusing to give any estimate on how long they'll continue their shutdown (although I'm betting it's only until the Nov 4th election, as they seem to be selfishly hoping this helps them). This is democrats using SNAP recipients a leverage, and several have admitted as much.
Doing the right thing would be democrats voting to fund the government at the existing levels. Neither side gets anything extra, but the poor get fed, soldiers, air traffic controllers, etc. get paid. So don't whine like a hypocrite about "doing the right thing" unless you've already written your democrats senators to do so.
RE: Judge intervenes in Trump's denial of SNAP emergency funding - Magical Realist - Oct 31, 2025
It doesn't matter anymore. Two judges have now ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits. Booyah! Fuck your weasley excuses and blame games. Families will not starve now..
"A federal judge in Rhode Island has temporarily ordered the Trump administration to continue funding benefits for SNAP, the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
"The court is orally at this time, ordering that USDA must distribute the contingency money timely, or as soon as possible, for the November 1 payments to be made," said U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr.
After an hour-long emergency hearing, Judge McConnell ruled that the suspension of SNAP funding is arbitrary and likely to cause irreparable harm, citing the "terror" felt by Americans who are scrambling to meet their basic nutritional needs."