He's fucking freezing SNAP?

[choie]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-00200891

[yourout]

1. Only until he can kill it completely.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. Just to intimidate the peasants and let them know who's boss. He'll give it back

before there's riots.

[Hekate]

3. Not a surprise. Still, federal food aid has always benefitted farmers & used to be popular with them.

[iemanja]

4. All this shit was in Project 2025

Wasn't it?

[mwmisses4289]

70. If not all of it, a vast majority of it was.

[Bluethroughu]

5. He trying to starve people to death in the US.

[Arazi]

6. This is illegal usurpation of Congressional authority

Where the fuck are Dems TONIGHT?!

[RockRaven]

10. As powerless as they were yesterday, and will be tomorrow, that's where.

Turns out that voting (or not voting) matters.

A lot.

Every time.

Over time.

[Hekate]

19. When are people going to get that?

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]

22. Congressional Dems have standing to sue

And they need to get out in front of this tonight.

Where’s 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]

25. Remind me which judge type people have the ultimate say on that...

And the general philosophy and past behavior of these ones, and how that relates to what you are asserting.

[Arazi]

29. Dems have put judges in place

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]

32. Counting is hard, I know. One two three. One two three four five six.

Ugh... Who can keep it straight!?

[bpositive]

26. It really sucks

We’re powerless when we are in power and powerless when out of power.

[BamaRefugee]

48. Amazing isn't it.

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 they’re stupid.

[Mysterian]

66. Thanks to the electoral college and a corrupt supreme court,

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]

68. Funny how that works every fucking time.

[BadgerMom]

38. Messaging, though.

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]

12. Possibly watching reruns of Mr Rogers Neighborhood at Garlands home but to be fair SCOTUS says tRump is a special boy

and can break any law in the land. Welcome to fascist shithole USA.

[sakabatou]

7. I believe that's an illegal order.

[Irish_Dem]

58. Trump loves making illegal orders. He knows no one will stop him.

And it demonstrates his total power and control.

[UTUSN]

8. It's a non-hyperbolic reign of terror.

[RockRaven]

9. If you hear a MAGAt/Con/Repug, or a nonvoter, complain about this remind them

that this is what they chose.

[jls4561]

11. Let them eat cake.

Yeah, I know she really said brioche, but either way, it didn’t work out well for her.

[Retrograde]

13. Sure - it hurts people who (probably) didn't vote for him

He's all about cruelty and pettiness

[stillcool]

14. okay. reminder to self... chaos is the intent

and the state is where I'm at.

[moondust]

15. Slow genocide.

[ananda]

28. Yes, it looks like a serious population reduction.

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.

[moondust]

31. Maybe.

Last edited Tue Jan 28, 2025, 11:58 AM - Edit history (1)

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]

67. What I think Trump-Musk wants is a country...

filled with wealthy white plutocrats with everyone
else working as slaves.

Talk me down on this if you wish.

[Irish_Dem]

59. The new gap will be filled by Russia and China.

[ananda]

60. yup

You read my mind.

[yaesu]

16. I'm not seeing any MSM confirmation of this, only foreign aid freeze. nt

[iemanja]

21. All federal aid is frozen

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-administration-orders-sweeping-freeze-of-all-federal-aid/ar-AA1xYihL?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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]

23. Thank you. nt

[LauraInLA]

33. There was specific info about payments to individuals not being frozen. I'm thinking they're relying on the fact

that there will be a huge outcry over Medicaid and SNAP, and those programs will be worked in. It’s disgusting, but it’s been their playbook all week.

[uponit7771]

17. The memo says payments to individuals will continue but doesn't outline state level funding

This is hot garbage showmanship

[scipan]

47. THIS. nt

[HereForTheParty]

18. "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies"

Jeebus.

[Wingus Dingus]

20. That's on an actual government document. It's like a brain-dead Freeper wrote it.

[tulipsandroses]

27. Sounds like a script from his MAGA/KKK rallies

He's drunk with power. It may end up biting him in the ass.

[orangecrush]

30. Straight up fascism

[gab13by13]

24. So much for the House controlling the purse strings.

[Greg_In_SF]

34. Sounds like a clickbait article

"Could affect SNAP". Three unnamed sources.

The only confirmation I can find is that certain foreign aid has been halted.

[LudwigPastorius]

35. Knowing that orange shitstain,...

this probably means he'll freeze SNAP funding to blue states only.

[Greg_In_SF]

37. Thankfully

that's not how Federal programs work.

[Orrex]

36. Watch for his SNAP beneficiary KKKultists to worship him all the more fervently

[electric_blue68]

39. SNAP? How Much More can I hate this "man". Yeah, i know some of this was talked about. What the hell about Medicaid?!!!

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]

40. Feels like there's nothing he HASN'T frozen at this point.

[33taw]

41. This will impact farmers as much as people in poverty.

[notinkansas]

42. The cruelty is the point

in everything he does.

[Daleuhlmann]

45. Another Order That Will Be DOA in the Courts!

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]

46. The article does not mention SNAP at all

And specifically says the freeze does not apply to direct said to individuals.

[Arazi]

49. I thought SNAP was administered by grants to the states

I honestly don’t have a handle on that tho.

Medicaid is grant funded to the states to iirc

[choie]

50. Yes, SNAP is funding administered by the state.

[Arazi]

52. But that $$ comes from grants from the feds?

Or am I misremembering?

[choie]

54. You're correct, funding is federal.

[Ms. Toad]

65. It is administered by the States,

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]

61. It isn't given to individuals

[Ms. Toad]

64. So individuals don't get a card equivalent to a debit card.

Which they can use to buy food?

It must certainly is given to individuals.

[AZJonnie]

51. These kinds of threads are getting painfully numerous

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]

56. Pretty clear, they just froze all indirect payments

Only excluding Social Security and Medicare.

Everything

[valleyrogue]

62. It is getting to the point I will be trashing threads again.

This is clearly click bait b.s.

[Arazi]

63. No it's not. This is the real deal

Traitor cut off all federal funding which includes all grants to states and that means SNAP along with everything else

[Skittles]

53. they actually mentioned transgendering in the memo

FUCK EVERYONE WHO VOTED FOR THESE FUCKING ASS CLOWNS

[Mike 03]

55. The directives are so vague that even Federal workers are struggling

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]

57. oh they will get to SS and Medicare

it's only a matter of time

[videohead5]

69. He will be sued

President Biden put a record number of judges on the federal bench. This will be blocked within a few hours if not minutes.