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.
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.