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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHe's fucking freezing SNAP?
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891

yourout
(8,284 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,824 posts)before there's riots.
Hekate
(96,604 posts)iemanja
(55,655 posts)Wasn't it?
mwmisses4289
(658 posts)Bluethroughu
(7,003 posts)Arazi
(7,593 posts)Where the fuck are Dems TONIGHT?!
RockRaven
(17,010 posts)Turns out that voting (or not voting) matters.
A lot.
Every time.
Over time.
Hekate
(96,604 posts)goddam hard for any Dem in the House or Senate to do anything when the MAGAGOPs have a trifecta
Altho my Senator Schiff has been speaking out on MSNBC a lot lately
Arazi
(7,593 posts)And they need to get out in front of this tonight.
Wheres our leadership ffs?!
No more passivity please. Time to get very VERY loud. This is a total power grab to neuter all of Congress. Even Republicans should protest this illegal move
RockRaven
(17,010 posts)And the general philosophy and past behavior of these ones, and how that relates to what you are asserting.
Arazi
(7,593 posts)Time to ante up on where they stand on our Constitution.
And ffs, this is going to gut red state governors as hard as blue states.
RockRaven
(17,010 posts)Ugh... Who can keep it straight!?
bpositive
(424 posts)Were powerless when we are in power and powerless when out of power.
BamaRefugee
(3,774 posts)But the other side never never ever stops, in or out of power, thinking up an endless buffet of skullduggery, which has a massive cumulative effect, yet we keep saying theyre stupid.
Mysterian
(5,397 posts)and of course the undemocratic apportionment of senators. Yes, rotten relics of our past have come back to spoil democracy in the U.S.A.
Autumn
(47,446 posts)
BadgerMom
(3,127 posts)We are powerless except for our voices. We can express what we would do differently. We can reach out to those hurting because of this. WE CAN BEGIN ASKING FOR THEIR VOTE NOW!
yaesu
(8,622 posts)and can break any law in the land. Welcome to fascist shithole USA.
sakabatou
(44,198 posts)Irish_Dem
(65,540 posts)And it demonstrates his total power and control.
UTUSN
(73,514 posts)RockRaven
(17,010 posts)that this is what they chose.
jls4561
(2,107 posts)Yeah, I know she really said brioche, but either way, it didnt work out well for her.
Retrograde
(10,972 posts)He's all about cruelty and pettiness
stillcool
(33,421 posts)and the state is where I'm at.
moondust
(20,782 posts)
ananda
(31,315 posts)The USA will not be the USA much longer.
I think the new gap will be filled by Trump
friendly foreigners.
I've thought this for awhile now.
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Add up all his actions hostile to public health, from drinking bleach to appointing an anti-vax nutjob to head HHS--and everything in between--and it starts to become plausible.
A disturbing thought on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of a genocidal death camp where between 1.1 and 1.5 million were murdered by criminals who thought they were superior.
ananda
(31,315 posts)filled with wealthy white plutocrats with everyone
else working as slaves.
Talk me down on this if you wish.
Irish_Dem
(65,540 posts)You read my mind.
yaesu
(8,622 posts)iemanja
(55,655 posts)Grants and loans are also frozen. There are multiple threads with different news sources on the grants and loans.
(oops. Same source. I'll look for another one).
yaesu
(8,622 posts)LauraInLA
(1,763 posts)that there will be a huge outcry over Medicaid and SNAP, and those programs will be worked in. Its disgusting, but its been their playbook all week.
uponit7771
(92,496 posts)This is hot garbage showmanship
HereForTheParty
(695 posts)Jeebus.
Wingus Dingus
(8,824 posts)tulipsandroses
(6,914 posts)He's drunk with power. It may end up biting him in the ass.
orangecrush
(23,554 posts)gab13by13
(26,889 posts)Greg_In_SF
(171 posts)"Could affect SNAP". Three unnamed sources.
The only confirmation I can find is that certain foreign aid has been halted.
LudwigPastorius
(11,845 posts)this probably means he'll freeze SNAP funding to blue states only.
Greg_In_SF
(171 posts)that's not how Federal programs work.
Orrex
(64,852 posts)electric_blue68
(20,223 posts)I'm not on SNAP, had been. Dammit, people need this!!!
My facility apt, and meals is partly based on Medicaid (+SS, and NYS Payments)!
Oh, I managed to tamp down most of my anxieties, and fears pre J20.
:donotpanic: :donotpanic: :donotpanic:
Ok, not panicking (yet?).
Karasu
(710 posts)33taw
(3,096 posts)notinkansas
(1,194 posts)in everything he does.
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Daleuhlmann
(405 posts)Somebody should have set a burning match this two-page memo! It violates not only the anti-impoundment law, but the Constitution's separation.of powers.
Ms. Toad
(36,188 posts)And specifically says the freeze does not apply to direct said to individuals.
Arazi
(7,593 posts)I honestly dont have a handle on that tho.
Medicaid is grant funded to the states to iirc
choie
(5,195 posts)Arazi
(7,593 posts)Or am I misremembering?
choie
(5,195 posts)Ms. Toad
(36,188 posts)But the programs are administered for the benefit of individuals who are people receive the equivalent of a debit card to buy food for themselves and their families.
Not to mention, the SNAP funds are not funds that are arguably used to promote a woke agenda (etc.). Read the actual document and didn't buy trouble where there isn't any (yet).
obamanut2012
(28,320 posts)Ms. Toad
(36,188 posts)Which they can use to buy food?
It must certainly is given to individuals.
AZJonnie
(477 posts)I, for one, would appreciate a title like "Trump OMB order is unclear about whether SNAP payments could be halted" instead of terrifying declarations like the OP here? I feel there's enough verifiably terrifying shit going on this past week without people framing their speculation as if were fact in their thread titles. But maybe that's just me, and if so, I apologize for bringing it up
JCMach1
(28,445 posts)Only excluding Social Security and Medicare.
Everything
valleyrogue
(1,826 posts)This is clearly click bait b.s.
Arazi
(7,593 posts)Traitor cut off all federal funding which includes all grants to states and that means SNAP along with everything else
Skittles
(162,404 posts)FUCK EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR THESE FUCKING ASS CLOWNS
Mike 03
(18,211 posts)to understand them.
I am slowly making my way through this subReddit for Federal Workers. There's a lot of information here about a "sweeping freeze in federal aid" that appears to exclude only Social Security and Medicare if I'm understanding this correctly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/new/
This website is constantly updating with new posts. This website is overwhelming (and sad) but it offers a good way to try to understand what Trump is doing to our government and its agencies.
Skittles
(162,404 posts)it's only a matter of time
videohead5
(2,568 posts)President Biden put a record number of judges on the federal bench. This will be blocked within a few hours if not minutes.