Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump's Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/us/politics/trump-strategy-food-stamps.html

https://archive.ph/KaBGW

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda
The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need.
By Tony Romm
Nov. 2, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

As the federal shutdown stretched into its fifth week, imperiling the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, Vice President JD Vance insisted that there was little the White House could do to help.

In fact, the administration had billions of dollars at its disposal — more, by its own admission, than it needed to sustain food stamps for the roughly 42 million low-income people who depend on them. And it was only after a federal judge intervened that President Trump signaled he could use the money for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.

In what may become the longest federal stoppage in history, the president has frequently bent the rules of budget, primarily to reap political benefits or exact retribution. He has found new and untested ways to spare certain Americans, like the military, from the pain of the government closure, while claiming he has no power to help others, including low-income individuals who rely on benefits like SNAP.

“They are willing to hurt people at the bottom when they take care of their friends and priorities,” said Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.

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[vapor2]

1. Just WOW! America in 2025

Sadistic thugs/grifters running amok for their billionaire buddies

[dalton99a]

3. +1. Project 2025 on steroids and turbocharged

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. This is exactly what he's doing, and it's evil, horrible, sadistic and you name it.

[Turbineguy]

4. Yeah, life is easier when you are an enemy of the U.S.