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.
Oh GOD!! Quick somebody stop kids from eating so Trump can have more women in martini glasses!!!
Next level evilness.
I know the news keeps saying they were going hard against the tariffs. I have zero doubt they will do anything but capitulate tonight him again; it’s why they are there.
America! Fuck yeah! This is winning! Fuck the poor!
Oh. And Trump is a pedophile and most likely human trafficker. In addition to his other felonies and rape charges. He also sleeps in meetings and has no idea who he pardons. Clearly he is sundowning. But hey, the GOP is here to protect all your diddlers and white collar criminals. They really care.
“Emergency”
More like vetoing the actual emergency order.
HURRY A POOR FAMILY IS ABOUT TO BUY SOME FOOD WE MUST STOP THIS!
We are officially in the “Let them eat cake” stage of this MAGA government. Enormous ballrooms, foreign jet bribes, bailouts for foreign dictators, and now they’re going to deliberately starve poor people because they think it will make people vote for them.
When we take back this government, this will be the exact reason that there should be at least three seats added to the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas should be impeached, prosecuted and imprisoned, along with his treasonous bulldog wife.
They are actively STARVING their own citizens! There will be no punishment too severe for these monsters.
We are officially in the “Let them eat cake” stage of this MAGA government.
Cake‽ Are you out of your mind? Why should taxpayers’ money be used to fund something as luxurious as cake for people on SNAP benefits?
here will be no punishment
too severefor these monsters.We’re in end game now. We will not take back the government. 2025 was a feel-good moment but 2026 will be stolen. Civil war 2 AI boogaloo is the only chance for The People to take back our power after that.
Nope, historically, these guys never win for long. Eventually they fall, and it is ALWAYS very bad for them. Ask Hitler, Mussolini, Ceausescu, Gadhafi, and countless other dictators whose last day in office coincided with their deaths
Aside from Ceausescu the rest were deposed by outside military forces. Tell me who’s going to invade the US and save us?
When we take back this government, this will be the exact reason that there should be at least three seats added to the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas should be impeached, prosecuted and imprisoned, along with his treasonous bulldog wife.
You are long past “take back the government” at this point. The flaws in the system have been so blatantly exploited that it requires an overhaul to fix. Three more seats on the supreme Court just means a fascist needs two more people in their pocket to do the exact same thing that is happening now.
Emergency. To stop citizens from getting food.
This is what you voted for republikkkans. I sure as shit hope you enjoy what you’ve done. Have a glass of water for dinner.
Nestle: Water ain’t a human right either, suckers.
Anything they can do to lower taxes for people with more money than God.
One thing I did not see coming was the judge who put the ruling out. I would have guessed Roberts or basically any one of 6 possible choices other than Brown.
Supposedly there is a 4d chess reason or something but the court system shouldn’t be that complicated.
The Government’s argument, I shit you not, “Congress has not given explicit permission to do this.”
Invade cities with ICE, bomb boats in the body of water formerly know as the Gulf of Mexico, literally start a war with a sovereign nation, tariff the fuck out of everyone… BUT OH NO! Feeding kids, that’s Executive overreach.
Man, I’m not religious, but holy fuck I really do hope there is a hell.
This administration is demonic.
Kentanji brown Jackson was the one who halted payments.
A direct link to the relevant comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/20377671
Completely demonic. Pure evil.
Man, I’m not religious, but holy fuck I really do hope there is a hell.
I say this ALL the time. The moment is heard Dick Cheney died, I thought “If there’s a Hell, he’s having a very unpleasant time right now,” and smiled.
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?
Oh, that’s cute. You think riots could solve this.
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.
It does feel like things are resolving. Trump just got his lowest ratings ever, and last time it took a pandemic, a crippled economy, and a million dead Americans to reach this point.
His acceleration tactic seems to be potentially backfiring. His intention to start wars is his solution, but I’m not sure that will work considering how much he’s fucked up everyone’s everyday lives. The record-high job losses, the skyrocketing price of goods, the housing costs, loan rates, and rent prices…
He doesn’t have the intelligence to fix this. And as it gets worse, so too will public opinion. He’s at a 63% disapproval rating right now. And this was before the news about the Epstein files being “far worse” for Trump came from The Department of Justice.
The craziest whacko republican in the senate is now openly flipping on Trump to get those files released. The shutdown is preventing this, and now nearly 42 million Americans are about to be impacted by Trump and the GOP Supreme Court deliberately shutting down their food money.
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
So this is how you know you’re the fucking bad guys, if any MAGAs are lurking around here.
They are either starving people for leverage, or starving people out of malice. That’s it. Those are your only options.
If you support a government that starves people for leverage, you’re a fucking asshole.
If you support a government that starves people out of malice, you’re a fucking asshole, and you’re a complete failure of a human being.
I’m very, VERY thankful Trump and MAGA are finally collapsing. 3 months from today Trump will not be the president. 3 years from now, most of these people will be dead or in prison.
I admire your optimism, and sincerely hope you’re right.
I’m so tired of this evil clown show.
We have had countless reasons for “Trump is almost through” for about 10 years now. I think it’s going to get a lot worse.
Oh yeah, it’ll get worse. But that’s what will get him out and everyone in prison.
Basically their hand is forced: escalate or capitulate. I’m not 100% sure which will happen but I am 100% sure it will be one of those two things within the next two weeks.
Love the idea, but not gonna happen.
I live in rural Ohio. The consensus amongst maga is “duh dems r blockin’ it!!! :((((”
The traitorous, moronic MAGA voters will have nothing to do with it. They’re just along for the ride, just like they are now. They’re nothing but pawns.
How do you envision him ceasing to be the president in 3 months?
Escalation or capitulation.
Escalation means explosion of all the tension that has been building since inauguration, and that won’t last long as it will be utter chaos and good for nobody.
Capitulation means Vance. But that doesn’t necessarily preclude escalation down the road with him.
If I was a betting man, I’d say capitulation - MAGA politicians will throw Trump under the bus, MAGA voters (read: morons) will reject Vance, Bannon, Miller and Thiel will panic and get messy, and then some people will go to prison.
Perhaps massive numbers of citizens are going to march to DC and do the needful.
Build a gallows in the ballroom and let him experience a quick drop.
They’ll either kill him or invoke the 25th.
This is like fucking pennies, dude. Fuck off with this shit. Go ride your Qatari jet and contract with Raytheon and approve another massive defenses (excuse me, War) budget
Ketanji Brown Jackson Issued the order. When we hold the criminals in SCOTUS to account for their crimes, she must not be pardoned for this. She chose to starve Americans in violation of law and deference to a criminal fascist regime.
She is on the Menu. We won’t forget.
IMPORTANT EDIT @Hagenman@lemmy.world pointed out that there appears to be some maddening legal strategy at play to prevent the rest of the corrupt, illegitimate court from making the situation worse. https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
From other thread, there may be some 4D chess going on by her:
Interesting.
Pleasantly conspiratorial, plausible rationale, hitting critical mass and linked… That feels a lot like old Reddit.
Once all this bullshit is finally over with, we need a constitutional amendment banning the fucking shadow docket this is insane
If every paper in the U.S. and news channel isn’t saying “President Donald Trump orders ~1/8 of Americans to go hungry!”. They should should face enough backlash that they should be off the air or fear they will be burned down for lying to the public.
If you are able, please donate to your local food bank. Money goes a longer way than food, but any donation is welcome.
