• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

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    Republicans only care about something when they NEED it. When they don’t need it then no one else is allowed to have it either.

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    Slammed? To shreds, you say?

    Slammed is just behind “White House [emotion] About [latest bullshit the administration caused]” in the list of useless headlines designed to increase views.

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      I keep waiting for the headline to be something like “Vance slammed face-first into the sidewalk by passersby until he stopped twitching,” but I’m always disappointed.

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    Wow shocking, there’s tons of farmers who get millions of dollars from the government and vote against anyone else having any sort of assistance available to them, so this kind of rural bullshittery has been around quite a while.

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    There was a federal court ruling subsequent to the publication of the submitted article, so they should be moving, albeit with some delay. It’s not clear whether they will be paid in full for the month, though.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/02/snap-government-shutdown-day-33-live-updates/87038309007/

    Government shutdown live updates; Bessent says food benefits could flow by Wednesday

    The payments appeared set to stop at the beginning of November, as the shutdown has stretched into a new week. But federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ruled Oct. 31 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture needs to use $5.25 billion in contingency funds to make at least partial payments.

    Both judges said the Trump administration has the option to use certain discretionary money to provide the benefits in full for November. They gave the administration a limited number of days to provide an update on what it’s doing.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants to hear from the courts about how to legally move money around to fund SNAP payments, but he noted during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it “could” flow by Wednesday.

    “There’s a process that has to be followed,” Bessent said. “So, we’ve got to figure out what the process is.”

    The Cabinet secretary also told the outlet that the Trump administration will not appeal the rulings.

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    All US benefits are the same - evil unless a specific conservative person needs them, then they are justified - see abortion, divorce, SNAP, welfare, healthcare, government loans, tax exemptions, etc.

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    Isn’t SNAP how we’re buying a bunch of American produce that the rest of the world doesn’t want anymore because of tariffs?

    I thought it was a farm subsidy program first and a hunger program second.