The Trump administration told states on Saturday that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the uncertainty surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. In late-night guidance seen by The New York Times, the Agriculture Department also threatened financial penalties against states.
Why is feeding people political? What value add is forcing people to starve? Monsters.
I think their strategy is to make the gov shutdown as painful as possible, then point fingers at Dems.
Honestly they should have caved a long time ago. Trump and his cronies are loving the shutdown.
I’m not convinced that appeasement strategies have been very successful with dictators in the past.
I don’t know where people are getting the idea that I suggested anyone appease him/them…
No, they absolutely should not have, and should continue not to. The message they should be receiving from the most recent elections is that the Republicans are losing support, not gaining it.
What they should be doing is the opposite. It is in the GOP’s best interest to reopen the government. Until they can see that their actions are losing them all of their support, ask for more.
For every additional day that someone starves due to the government’s failure to provide, ask for something to compensate them. Every additional day that people work without pay, demand something in return for them.
Eventually they will need to cave and compromise. Move the bar so far back that they have no choice but to compromise harder.
[citation needed]. Republican voters do not want SNAP to even exist. Preventing people from having access to food is what they voted for.
Surely you’ve read the news on the most recent elections? Or will we ignore Democrats making major victories from New York City to Mississippi?
Are we going to ignore the giant national Republican victory last year? Show me scientific evidence that shows that conservatives are losing support due to the shutdown.
Are we going to ignore the giant national Democratic victory a few years ago?
We’re talking about the Government shutdown and SNAP benefits in this thread. There has only been one set of national elections during this shutdown.
…you mean 5 years ago ?
Which is why I asked about the government shutdown…
Yes. Both are equally irrelevant to the shutdown that has been going on for only a couple months. There has only been one major set of elections since the shutdown, which was my point.
They are all varying degrees of relevant (certainly some more than other), including the most recent one, which is why I asked for relevant, conclusive evidence and not just speculation.
I disagree - there is no appeasing a tyrant - ask the universities that caved to Trump how that worked out for getting their funding restored.
This news demonstrates exactly why, and how democrats need to throw that narrative out the window.
Who said anything about appeasing him? I’m talking about reopening the gov and getting people fed. We have nothing to gain, they’re more than happy to use starvation as a negotiation strategy.
Reopening the government without ACA subsidies literally kills people when they can’t afford their new premiums. There are people for whom affordable access to healthcare is the difference between life-saving medication and, well, the lack of that.
Starvation of people on SNAP is also literally the GOP’s stated goal. If Dems fund the government and let those people who need healthcare die, the GOP isn’t going to play nice and keep funding SNAP. They’re gonna gut it like they’ve always dreamt of doing anyway. They already signaled this with the BBB.
That would be a valid point if conservatives had any motivation at all to come to the table.
Exactly my point.
If they were going to defund it, they would have done so already. They defunded everything else.