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a member of the President donald trumpEarlier the administration has claimed that the Commander-in-Chief “doesn’t give a f***” about funding for the ongoing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program expiring at midnight Friday. government shutdown,
snap benefitsotherwise known as ration cardAbout 41.1 million Americans are given it monthly, according to Agriculture DepartmentBut, as it stands, it won’t be available in November because Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says she doesn’t have the $8 billion needed to pay for it and is legally barred from putting the money in the contingency fund.
miles teller – who served as deputy chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security in 2019 and was later exposed as an author In an anonymous op-ed the new York Times Attack on administration – Rained down heavily on X regarding the deadlock.
Taylor said, “I was part of the Trump administration’s internal team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown for 35 days in 2018-2019 — before people go hungry, workers go unpaid, and government services collapse.” wrote“That’s what I learned: He doesn’t give a s***.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Independent The comments only provide “further evidence that Miles Teller’s entire identity is a TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] Joker.
“If he really cared about workers being paid and families getting benefits, he would urge Democrats to reopen the government – just as the President is doing. Democrats could end the shutdown today but Miles is too blinded by his TD anger to accept the truth.”
After leaving the administration, Taylor published a book about his experiences titled a warning (2019), supported Joe Biden In the 2020 presidential election and since then he has served as National Security Advisor while remaining a vocal critic of Trump.
The President was asked directly on Wednesday about the SNAP shortage on Air Force One Far East Tour And without giving any more detailed assurances, simply said, “We’re going to get it done”.
On average a family of four receives $715 per month In food stamps, that comes to less than $6 per person per day, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
They are made available through reloadable debit cards that recipients use to pay for groceries with funds administered by states. Most states cannot afford even one month’s SNAP payments from their own budgets and the USDA has said they will not be reimbursed if they do.
States like California, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York and Virginia have pledged emergency food programs to help with the current emergency, but the situation still threatens that one in eight Americans will be forced to make tough choices about their limited household budgets, in many cases having to take money out of their rent, heating or medical prescriptions to buy food.
“They’re facing a huge decline in their ability to put food on the table,” said Ed Bolen, director of state SNAP strategies for CBPP. told CNN“They’ll give up food. They’ll substitute food. They’ll have to go somewhere else.”
Democrats on Capitol Hill have argued that the USDA’s refusal to use $6 billion in contingency funds to keep the program running is illegal, and that argument is now being pressed in a lawsuit filed by Democratic attorneys general from 25 states and the District of Columbia.
“Discontinuing SNAP benefits would worsen public health and welfare,” the lawsuit says. “The loss of SNAP benefits leads to food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition, which are associated with multiple negative health outcomes in children, such as poor concentration, decreased cognitive function, fatigue, depression, and behavioral problems.”
This coming Saturday marks not only the end of SNAP funding, but also the beginning of Strict new work requirements Deciding who can receive benefits and who cannot, initiated by Trump “A big, beautiful bill” Not only does it begin this summer, but it also marks the one-month anniversary of the shutdown, which is already the second-longest in U.S. history after the 35-day outage described by Taylor.
Republicans continued to blame Democrats for refusing to agree on a new spending bill to end the impasse, while refusing to meet them halfway on the help they are seeking for citizens facing rising health insurance premiums.