The Trump administration is telling states not to pay full November food stamp benefits, revising its previous guidance after winning a temporary victory at the Supreme Court on Friday.
USDA’s latest memo, sent Saturday to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instructed states to deliver just 65 percent of benefits during the government shutdown and required those who already sent full payments to claw back that money.
“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025,” the memo notes.
While I can sort of understand the argument that when the government is shut down it makes food distribution more difficult.
But I can’t understand a government actively taking action to prevent food distribution by entities that are working around the shutdown.
Yes. Any excuse to enact martial law and begin actively hunting their opposition like animals. They want to label those who fight back against their oppression as violent, lawless, fanatics.
Conservatives think everyone using services is a welfare queen by definition. So their solution is to kick people off, so that they’re motivated to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, because then they’ll be rich just like them, then everyone will be richer because they don’t have to pay taxes, etc. To conservatives any government action is by definition bad and evil.
The first bit is right, but the goal is not to make everyone richer. It’s to make themselves richer off the labor of everyone else, who can live a short miserable life of impoverished servitude and die young. They don’t want to pay for the sick and elderly because they see those people as worthless since they can’t contribute to making the billionaires more profit. And at the bottom of it is the idea that life is a competition with winners (the rich) who deserve to win and losers (everyone else) who deserve to lose, and the purpose of life is money and power.
They think the poor are poor because they didn’t work hard enough. They think the sick are sick because they didn’t work hard enough to get medical care. They think elderly that can’t take care of themselves didn’t work hard enough for their retirement. See everyone can be rich if they just worked. It worked for them (cough) so obviously everyone else didn’t work hard enough.
Well, they looooove government when it comes to cops protecting only the parasitic class and beating on/jailing/killing the unworthy and military adventures abroad to do the same…
Even then they want private police.
I think they want to make it harder on folks when it is already hard enough. I hope leopards show up on their doorstep one day.
Nah, not really. The conservatives give a lot of lip service to such things, but that’s not really what is motivating most of them.