Entering the hearing, top officials in the Trump administration had acknowledged that they had billions of dollars left over across multiple federal accounts, including money in an emergency reserve specifically for SNAP. The amounts appeared to total more than would be needed to cover the full costs of providing food stamps if the shutdown continued through November.
But lawyers for the Justice Department signaled that the administration could not, or would not, use those funds despite the looming shortfall.
Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
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U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
maybe GOP will get firsthand experience of what 42 million people who have very little to lose are capable of when actual starvation kicks in
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s the idea. The plan is basically, starve the poor, wait for violence, declare martial law, suspend elections.
They’re deathly afraid they will be voted out — at this point, they probably can’t recover from this. So they’re moving to ensure they can’t be voted out.
They also have an exit strategy in case it doesn’t pan out. But at this point they are going full steam ahead with their plan.