THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE
SNAP benefits have never been cut off in any government shutdown. Until now. Not once, Not under Bush. Not under Obama. Not during other long shutdowns. The only two times Americans have come close to closing food assistance was during the 2018-2019 shutdown and the one happening right now. Both were under Donald T****’s presidencies.
In 2018, the USDA had to scramble to pay February benefits early to stop people from going hungry. Now, in 2025, we were warned that millions may not get November benefits at all.
We’re talking about families who rely on as little as $6 a day for food being told there is “no funding.” Yet the government sits on billions in reserve for just such emergencies, and under T****’s “big ugly bill,” billionaires and corporations get billion dollar tax breaks.
And all the while, the president fields his private army in the city streets, he gives away $40 billion in American treasure to prop up the failing economy of a South American strongman he likes and ICE burns through millions on tear gas which it uses against innocent and defenseless citizens.
And to top it off, the president accepts a gift jet that will cost Americas a cool billion to restore and will be his to keep, and builds himself a golden ballroom.
This isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s just plain, in-your-face cruelty. Which seems to be the hallmark of Donald T****’s administration. Fortunately, a pair of federal judges have put the kibosh on T**** halting SNAP benefits and has ordered the government to pay them, either in part of in whole.
T**** has said, of course, that will pay only in part, and that it may take a while before anyone gets relief. And that is only after challenging the lower court’s rulings and threatening in any event to defy them. So here we have it: Federal judges order T**** to feed hungry children, and he fights the order.
You’d almost think he wants them to go hungry.
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