Trump Admin Will Partially Fund SNAP Benefits
However, it could take a long time before the money gets moved around.
The Agriculture Department told US District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island that it would partially fund SNAP benefits.
However, it won’t happen immediately.
McConnell gave the Trump administration until today to respond to his ruling that the USDA could use contingency funds for SNAP during the shutdown.
“The attached declaration explains that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is complying with the Court’s order and will fulfill its obligation to expend the full amount of SNAP contingency funds today by generating the table required for States to calculate the benefits available for each eligible household in that State,” according to the file.
The total amounts to $4.65 billion from the contingency fund.
In the attached declaration, Patrick Penn, the Deputy Under Secretary of the Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (FNCS), said it won’t pull funds from other sources to pay for November.
Also, making the changes to fund SNAP, “the system changes States must implement to provide the reduced benefit amounts will take anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months.”
Each state differs in how it receives SNAP benefits.
Some states have systems that are “decades old,” leading to those delays.
Earlier today I wrote about Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins exposing the corruption within SNAP.
I wonder if requiring states to update their systems will be one of the reforms Rollins will instill.
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The clever legislators who named SNAP will soon feel as mortified as the rocket scientists who named a space telescope to rhyme with “trouble.”
Perhaps the shutdown will end first.
Lord, I hope not.
Also make one of the conditions that no dime of emergency money will go to anyone here illegally, or on any sort of visa (one requirement for obtaining one is that you not be a burden on society). Green card holders and citizens only.
Then insist on that provision in any CR that funds SNAP after the Dems cave.
Anything but a ‘clean’ CR is a bad idea IMO. By keeping it ‘clean’ no policy changes and no funding changes it remained any potential wrangling about the scope of the CR. Keep it clean and simply retain FY25 spending levels throughout the period the CR is in effect.
That said definitely use the moment for injecting reality into our budget and returning real teeth to the ‘public charge’ rule to prevent any taxpayer funds being expended for anyone but US Citizens and lawful permanent aliens (aka green card holders). End the polite fiction that this is already the case and cut off eligibility for illegal aliens, visa holders and those pending an asylum claim or other immigration ruling.
The democrats wanted to make permanent the enhanced ACA subsidies via CR. By using extortion, they want to spend trillions and not have to go through regular budget approval.
Repeal the ACA
Illegal alien heads of house can apply for snap and other benefits for their citizen children. If we can’t get rid of birthright citizenship, we can at least detain and deport every single illegal alien who applies for federal benefits on behalf of their children.
Stop the liberal tantrums and this ends.
Good this will only fund about half a month and then the pressure really ramps up on the Dems. Flew from Maui to Austin and then on to DFW this weekend and the ATC situation is really causing massive disruptions to flights.
In a couple of weeks with no more SNAP funds available and air travel issues mounting the Dems popularity be in the toilet. I would except any DEM Senator in a swing state will be ready to reopen the government and seek a solution.
Nah, they’ll cave right after the elections. I think Cruz nailed it.
Yet
The Comies will win EVERY race tomorrow
Every
I don’t think the Dems have thought this out. If the shutdown continues and all the contigency money is gone, then what?
They will find a federal judge who demands that Trump fund the program without any appropriation from Congress. That’s just the level of stupidity we’ve come to expect from certain district court judges.
SNAP outlay needs to be rolled back to 2020 levels and be delivered to the states in the form of block grants. Federal participation needs to be reduced by 10% annually until the states are fully responsible for feeding their own citizens. It’s time that states take responsibility for their people and start making the hard decisions about who gets help and who is told to get off their @ss and work.
Plus we need to return to the historical pattern of Families taking primary responsibility for care/feeding of their own. Then several layers of backstop to assist; congregations, neighbors, friendly societies, unions, local charities, local gov’t. Only once those efforts are made should the State or Federal govt be called upon.
The lively debate on SNAP is fantastic. In summary…handouts are not a good thing.
I’ll pose a question- a question which needs an answer.
We have a population bomb. Kids are expensive. For late teen and early 20 somethings…. having kids means sacrifice and giving up the Peter Pan lifestyle. We as a country have had close to 50 years of pop culture denigrating the nuclear family.
How do we educate (and persuade) kids who are now 14-25 that raising a family is how they should invest their labor? We need young and self-sufficient families. How do we do this. Elon poses this question all the time. He doesn’t have an easy answer either.
end welfare
why?
locally all over the country people are stepping in to the job the government is NOT SUPPOSE to do
Some outlets are reporting that approximately 42 million people receive SNAP benefits, which accounts for roughly 13% of the U.S. population, equivalent to the population of Canada. When such a significant number of individuals are using SNAP benefits, including mostly undocumented immigrants, it raises concerns and questions about the welfare system.
Welfare has become a political tool, often used as a strategy for securing votes, particularly among Democrats. More importantly, SNAP has evolved into a fraudulent abuse of the welfare system, and it represents a costly and wasteful enterprise that lacks an explicit solution.
Canned veggies and rice and beans (legumes) only.
I’d say fresh produce but durable is better here.
And this should all be done by the several States for their own citizens. And charities. There are lots of food kitchens open now
Bad idea. Won’t take too long and the medical issues resulting ou o such a roten diet will just move he baon dosnwtream to hospital care.. many times more dear han better eats.
I ecognise that most will continue to gobble their trash diets… I see them in the chckou lines. Cas piled high with empty calories, sweets, high carb junk eats. And hose pushing the cars weigh wice what I do. And so do their chubby kids.
How about a radical plan based on common sense? There is no particular constitutional requirement that Congress pass a budget, or even spend money on anything in specific.
1) Agree that a “budget” is where income is mapped to expenses. This is the definition for all but the federal government. Make it apply to the feds.
2) Agree that 10% of the federal budget will be used to pay down debt.
3) Let the states do whatever is needed to feed their citizens. Get the feds out of it. If the citizens of each state want to tax themselves into poverty, let it be so. The feds have created the problem we have now and should not be in charge of propagating the mess they made.