Show of Hands

Ask Chuck Schumer, he’s doing just that.

SCOTUS doesn’t have the ability to approve funding. That would make a horrible precedent. Congress approves budgets- that shouldnt change.

This entire shutdown is the democrats fault.

Let Schumer and the Democrats own it.

The Supreme Court didn’t let SNAP run out. Congress did.

Trump could do something about it but he is golfing.

The courts do not make the budget or allocate money!

the dems voted to keep it shutdown like 15+ times, but you know that, dumby

Financial aid isn't essential.

We keep posting that the majority of those on snap WORK. Majority full time. Quit ignoring the facts...

Support in that it is not up to the judicial branch to direct where money goes.

Idk how anyone can think this shutdown isn’t Democrat caused with all the blocking of the full bill and individual bills to pay for SNAP benefits or pay the military or pay federal workers or air traffic controllers. They are holding all of that spending hostage as leverage. It’s not even a debate who is stopping funding.

What is wrong with you people? I pray you never have to have member’s of your family go hungry…

If there is a shutdown, federal money should only go to the essential things. Snap is extra not essential. They need to go to work and agree on a legit budget

If you work as essential federal worker , you are working but not getting paid , so how do you feed yourself.

BUT

If you stay home and are on the government dole, you should not get money for food currently.

Why should a person who doesn’t work get money for food , while the fed gov worker whom is actively working NOT get money for food.

Make that make sense.

That is not the primary responsibility of the government. If they have extra it is great to do, but not an essential function.

Why anyone would let 40 million United States citizens starve I don’t know. 😢😢😢

Remember when the Supreme Court did the right thing?

thank the democrats for this lesson in what its like to live in the real world.

Trump is in charge not the democrats.

That’s not the function of the government though. That’s the responsibility of the Church.

Oh okay so because the Trump Administration can't fund it legally. Gotcha.

Republicans are for starving children.

So food isn't essential. Got it...

Correct for providing food is not essential government function.

Pro forced birth. Not pro life.

Providing food to those in need is EVERYONE'S responsibility, including the government. But, I'm sure you would just let them starve...

5 Dems can vote yes and feed everybody.

Food is essential. Every moral human knows that...

The democrats could do something about it but they put illegals above American citizens. Thats what this has always been about. You leftists are liars. You don’t care about those on Snap. This is a political ploy so you can blame Trump because you hate him and wish he were dead. No, Americans first, illegals should all be deported. The government needs to reopen so those on SNAP can eat.

It is the responsibility of EVERYONE who's capable. Including the government. Anyone who says otherwise aren't really concerned with children not being able to have food.

& currently the government is incapable of providing food.

The president of the federal government intent cannot unilaterally create and budget and fund things without congressional approval. This has always been the case.

Yes a judge has ordered the Trump Administration to use other funds and when Trump okay how the judge had no response.

And the Supreme Court has paused The Impossible judgment.

Food is essential for people, its not an essential role of the government

If people are being lifted out of poverty why are there now 42 million on food stamps, reportedly 40% more during Biden Admin….

I still don’t understand why the most liberal of all the judges Ketanji Brown Jackson halted the order requiring full SNAP payments. Head scratching for sure.

So now it's important that congress control the money spent. How convenient...

A better question is why (or rather if) 40 million people are dependent are actually dependent on government for food.

The government can use other money to pay for SNAP, and a federal court has ordered it to do so during a government shutdown, despite the administration's initial refusal. While contingency funds were used to make partial payments, judges determined that the government had the discretion to tap other funds to ensure full benefits were provided to recipients.

There are no funds available that can be legally tapped into.

I'd like to point out that this decision was made by the SCoTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

SCOTUS did not let SNAP benefits run out.
KBJ the Justices who oversees the First District sent the ruling that violates separation of powers back to the First District Court of Appeals.

SNAP isn't an anti-poverty program.

It's a pro-poverty program.
You remove the personal responsibility of feeding yourself and your family and you remove one of the primary reasons for life.

Wait DJ are you unaware that after the Court ruled that Trump must fund snap that Trump said 'okay how?'

props for the “upin’er” 👆🏼👌🏼

"When Trump okay how the judge had no response"... WHAT..

Also, what does an "impossible judgment" mean..

SNAP is an essential government program because it is one of the most effective anti-poverty tools, lifting millions of people out of poverty each year.

Nice opinion Bob. But wrong...

More people are on SNAP benefits than died of covid in the entirety of covid in the United States. (Not just the hight of the pandemic, but Total)

SNAP doesnt lift the majority of its benefactors out of poverty. There are a minority of people that use it temporary to lift themselves out of poverty. The a large swath of people use the subsidy as a crutch to keep hobbling through life.

People are dependent on SNAP benefits for their lifestyle and we are seeing their pleads for SNAP payments to continue surfacing all across the internet.

Some women are even bold enough to complain that they no longer have money for themselves and must spend it on their children to put food on the table.

A person who uses SNAP benefits for their livelihood is a person in poverty. A person who uses SNAP benefits to make it through the month is a person living in poverty.
A person who uses SNAP benefits for the time between losing income and finding income, is lifting themselves out of poverty.

Then democrats should vote to open the government