Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.

Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”

“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”

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      15 hours ago

      Why would JD Vance need to go on TV and spread propaganda “facts” about how much executive power Trump really has (again)?

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        Because they love the sound of their voices. The power they have isn’t earned or given, it’s stolen. And regardless of how you want to perceive it, facts or propaganda, the reality is: he’s gonna do whatever he wants and no one is stopping him. Which is basically him being a king… despite all those super useful no kings protests /s

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          People are figuring out how to side step the all powerful king, and using the law to their advantage to outsmart him. Because shockingly, it turns out he’s not always as all powerful as he believes he should be, and he’s also not very smart.

          That’s also why he needs his lap dog to lie and make claims about his power. That way he can claim his political enemies are the ones breaking the law by upholding it.