They claim they’re not sure where the money will come from and they didn’t want to break the law by pulling it from an unauthorized fund (despite there being a fund explicitly for this), yet they’ve had absolutely no problem committing multiple illegal acts every. Single. Day. since taking office.
It’s a sloppy and weak excuse, because they misplayed the shut down so badly that the Democrats win no matter what happens
The problem is they were trying to use this as a threat, but it was incredibly obvious to everyone that Trump and Co were directly going to fuck over 40 million people
Now it’s a weak point. Democrats don’t have to even agree to further fund SNAP during the shutdown… This is Trump’s famine no matter how it plays out
I mean the money does complicate things because it’s like a half a month of funding. Which raises legitimate questions if they are unwilling to pull the other half from somewhere else. Like do the most needy get a full payment, does everybody get half payments, some formula between the two that means tests distribution? The government is shutdown, so who is going to calculate and do any of this?
There are of course solutions and answers to all those questions, but nothing as simple as "release the money "
And it costs 9 billion a month for SNAP. Or do you mean that they intentionally only funded the emergency fund for a half a month? Because I could believe that.
I meant they have money to fund it today while they figure out where to get the rest. They are intentionally stalling. But I have also been wondering why the emergency fund was so small.
They claim they’re not sure where the money will come from and they didn’t want to break the law by pulling it from an unauthorized fund (despite there being a fund explicitly for this), yet they’ve had absolutely no problem committing multiple illegal acts every. Single. Day. since taking office.
Yes, it’s total bullshit and attempts at obfuscation. They are doing this intentionally, that’s the point.
It’s a sloppy and weak excuse, because they misplayed the shut down so badly that the Democrats win no matter what happens
The problem is they were trying to use this as a threat, but it was incredibly obvious to everyone that Trump and Co were directly going to fuck over 40 million people
Now it’s a weak point. Democrats don’t have to even agree to further fund SNAP during the shutdown… This is Trump’s famine no matter how it plays out
I mean the money does complicate things because it’s like a half a month of funding. Which raises legitimate questions if they are unwilling to pull the other half from somewhere else. Like do the most needy get a full payment, does everybody get half payments, some formula between the two that means tests distribution? The government is shutdown, so who is going to calculate and do any of this?
There are of course solutions and answers to all those questions, but nothing as simple as "release the money "
They set aside $5billion for snap just a few months ago. This is intentional.
And it costs 9 billion a month for SNAP. Or do you mean that they intentionally only funded the emergency fund for a half a month? Because I could believe that.
I meant they have money to fund it today while they figure out where to get the rest. They are intentionally stalling. But I have also been wondering why the emergency fund was so small.