The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will provide only half of the usual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in November after money for the program officially ran out on Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown. More than 42 million Americans, amounting to around 1 in 8 families overall, depend on the program, sometimes known as food stamps…

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  • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It will now. One of two things happen. The justice department either suddenly grows balls, a spine, and teeth, or we are no longer a nation beset by laws. This is the line. If he truly, undefatigably, undeniably cannot be stopped under the clearest, most cut-and-dry, willful defiance of the law, then there is no such rule of law in this nation, and we will act accordingly. Either way, things are about to change. And fast.

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      12 hours ago

      …i’m sorry? i feel like you have missed all of that happening already. what do you mean we would become a nation not beset by laws? we have long since passed that with this fascist regime.

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        10 hours ago

        Look man, I’m trying to snatch any ray of hope from this NYC fiasco. If civil war breaks out, we have 3 weeks of food, my dude… If logistics breaks down, we’re so beyond fucked…