BOSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked the appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
BOSTON (AP) — Residents in some U.S. states began to receive their full SNAP food aid Friday as an appeals court left in place, for now, an order requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to fund the monthly benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown.
Americans should be rioting already. There seems to be no end to the corruption and madness of their sham Supreme Court and fascist government. What will it take?
This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.
Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.
General strike. Hunger strike.
“I’m okay taking a few hits. They gotta weed out the leeches who just drain the system” <- actual reasoning I’ve heard.
When half the country is willing to starve to death and armed to the teeth, the other half is not quick to riot and provoke them
Fox News broke this country
Soon. When the safety nets start failing.
However, Trump will likely be removed by his own people in a matter of months, and Republicans will pretend to be victims of an elaborate scheme. It’ll probably work too, because anyone who is a supporter of Republicans today is a literal moron, or psychopath.
If the GOP impeaches Trump, we get Vance. That can’t be good either, amirite?
Correct, and correct. But Vance will be seen as a MAGA traitor for removing Trump, and they will have a very hard time getting their messaging straight.
I think that would also lead to a power vacuum. Vance might get the big boy chair, but the stringpullers will get antsy with midterms approaching.
It’s better than Trump. Vance has the charisma of a wet blanket.
And the backing of Peter Thiel, a billionaire with a surveillance empire just ripe for use in political oppression.
I mean, so does Fascist 47. Directly or indirectly, Thiel is getting what he wants right now. Same with all the other Dark Enlightenment chuds.
thiel is the reason vance has a career, financially and politically.
He also has a minimal existing cult following to build popularity off of, unlike Trump, who has people like this:
vance wouldnt get the support of the gop or scotus, or magats in general, they want TRUMP. the only support VANCE is getting is from THIEL, whos artificially keeping him there.
I think the scotus would absolutely bow to Vance.
Unsure about the masses though.
If Trump is removed, Vance takes office automatically. The whole point of the VP is to be a hot spare for the POTUS. They would have to get rid of Vance next if they didn’t want him, and it probably goes downhill from there.
In Trump’s first term, people said his insurance premium against impeachment was very affordable: “just one Pence”. :)
Almost every revolution in history was caused by people that got too hungry while rich people were oblivious.
Give it a bit more time.
republicans are mostly on snap, but they arent told the news on propaganda news sources, or its been distilled.
I get the impression that’s what they want. Riots are a great excuse for more militia in the cities and marshall law.
They certainly seem ok with being tread on