UPDATE: T says no...When SNAP benefits will arrive is still in flux.

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https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/g-s1-96372/snap-benefits-november-government-shutdown

When SNAP benefits will arrive is still in flux. Here's what communities are doing to fill the gap
NOVEMBER 4, 20255:03 AM ET
By
The NPR Network

The Trump administration says it will restart the national food aid program known as SNAP using money from a Department of Agriculture contingency fund but will only pay out half the amount participants would normally receive.

In a court filing, officials said depleting that fund means "no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely.“

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(I’m calling bs. This is not a deal. This is a fake-out distraction. ‘Maybe some money. Maybe sometime.’ Call your reps and tell them don’t fall for the con.)

UPDATE:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-snap-2674263865/

Trump reneges on promise to judge as he vows not to pay SNAP until shutdown ends

David Edwards
November 4, 2025 11:48AM ET

President Donald Trump announced that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would not be disbursed until the government shutdown ends after attorneys for his administration promised a federal judge that at least half of the payments would be sent out in November.

… more … and there you have it ..

[Lovie777]

1. They have the funds...............

it's not their money, it's the tax payers money which is duly paid by federal taxes.

The cruelty continues.

[GreenWave]

4. Exactly, asshole opened the Pearly Gates to Musk-evite, no questions.

Now he foot drags to help the needy.

[pwb]

2. They probably fired the computer person who knows

how to easily do that? More than likely it is just more in your face wealth heavy handedness.

[cbabe]

3. When did t ever pay his bills or his workers? He believes

all the money is his and we are fake humans.

[jfz9580m]

5. Callous beyond redemption

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/04/trumps-america-is-governed-by-necropolitics/

“Food insecurity” is the sterile term used by policy experts to describe hunger in America. In truth, it means fear, pain and not knowing where the next meal will come from. It means a scene like the one I witnessed last week in a Chicago supermarket.

An elderly woman handed her SNAP card to the cashier to pay for a small amount of food — no more than a dozen items. She laughed and said, “I’d better use what little money I have left before it runs out on Saturday.”

Gallows humor; the fear showed in her voice. The cashier, who in all likelihood does not make a living wage working at this supermarket, took the SNAP card and smiled. Then she too let out a small laugh. I imagine this young woman was also scared. Because like millions of other supermarket employees across the country, she knew she wouldn’t be receiving her benefits either. Two Black women, trauma bonding across the generations, because they wouldn’t be able to buy food in a few days.

Poverty and hunger are forms of structural violence that stunt lives, limit upward social mobility and raise the odds that a hungry child will one day end up in prison. They cause a range of physical, emotional and psychological harm, including shortened lives and death.

Poverty is a public policy choice. As sociologist Matthew Desmond said in a 2023 interview with Ezra Klein of the New York Times, “[P]overty is not just a line. It’s not just an income level. Poverty is often pain and sickness.”

What was most powerful about Desmond’s description of endemic poverty is the specific language, images and emotions he used to conjure it. “It’s living in degraded housing. It’s the fear of eviction. It is eviction and the homelessness. It’s getting roughed up by the police sometimes. It’s schools that are just bursting at the seams. It’s neighborhoods where everyone around you is also struggling.”

Then he got especially real. “It’s death,” he said. “It’s this tight knot of agonies, and humiliations, and social problems, and this is experienced by millions of us in the richest country in the history of the world.”

[CatWoman]

6. Trump DEFIES COURTS in SICK STUNT

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[cliffside]

7. Trump says he's withholding SNAP benefits until shutdown ends

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5588300-trump-withholding-snap-funding-shutdown/

"President Trump signaled Tuesday he would be withholding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits until “Radical Left Democrats open up government,” as many states grapple with a lapse in federal funding.

Trump, in a post on Truth Social, wrote, “SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly ‘handed’ to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!”

[bluestarone]

8. Judge needs to act, and act fast.

Not go after TSF, but call the actual people involved in releasing the money. Order them to appear in court TODAY!!