Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded after the ruling. That process often takes one to two weeks.
Not in a time frame that’ll do us any good. Nazi soldiers were dupes too, and we didn’t defeat Nazism by laying some sweet reason on them. To the extent that that happened at all, it was part of the cleanup job after they’d lost by other means.