Appeals court leaves in place order requiring Trump administration to pay out full SNAP benefits

Again I hear Nelson from the Simpsons? Must be something in the walls where I work.

Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a lower court decision that requires the Trump administration to swiftly provide full federal food benefits to roughly 42 million Americans by tapping into two pots of money.

The move from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit means the U.S. Department of Agriculture will have to take steps, for now, to cover in-full payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by the end of the day, absent 11th-hour emergency relief from the Supreme Court.

The 1st Circuit denied the administration’s request for a temporary, administrative stay, and said in its brief order that it is still considering its bid for longer relief while it considers the appeal.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X the administration will ask the Supreme Court to stay the Rhode Island-based lower court judge’s ruling, which she called “judicial activism at its worst.”

Edit: They’ve appealed to the Supreme Court to put a stay in place tonight https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown

Only an absolute ghoul would demand the starving of hungry kids

Hope the SNAP-dependent MAGA folks are paying attention here.

No President in history has ever worked so hard to deny food to their own citizens.

They’re just so desperate to hurt people.

How long will the appeal to SC take?

The Trump administration continues to brag about all the tariff revenues it’s taking in, so why not use this revenue to help finance SNAP benefits not covered by contingency reserves?

Oh, I know why! Because Republicans don’t want to fund food assistance and have been capitalizing off of this government shutdown to push anti-SNAP propaganda; persuading their voters that the entire program is a waste of funds and should be ended permanently.

And they’ve been pretty successful so far at riling up their base by leading a massive campaign on platforms like Twitter where conservative “influencers,” talking heads and mouthpieces for the regime are blaming the poor and the disadvantaged, immigrants and minorities, the “lazy” handout seekers, etc…

Yes, per usual, they’ve been scapegoating the underprivileged and marginalized instead of addressing the root causes of economic inequality and poverty, and instead of holding accountable the billionaires and kleptocrats in government who are literally taking from the poor to give to the rich; lining the pockets of a small number of political and wealthy elites while the rest of Americans suffer under economic hardship brought about by Republican policies.

Those same Republicans have the gall to claim that Democrats are “holding the country hostage” while they are abusing their trifecta of power to not only prolong a shutdown and lock in their cuts to healthcare and food assistance, but to also avoid a vote on releasing Epstein related materials. Mike Johnson has repeatedly used this shutdown as an excuse to delay or even kill their release.

Trump’s spitefulness and negligence was on full display when he needlessly halted funding for SNAP as a means of bullying the democratic party into surrendering their fight against unaffordable healthcare and Medicaid cuts.

Think about that for a moment. While this whole shutdown fight is centered around preserving healthcare for Americans by pushing back against GOP cuts to these programs, Trump and Republicans decided it would be within their best political interest to put food assistance on the chopping block as well.

They even refused to use contingency reserves to temporarily fund the program until two judges weighed in and ruled that the Trump administration was legally obligated to use the funds.

I’m sorry, who’s “holding the country hostage” now?

For weeks leading up to the shutdown, Republicans were cancelling votes, refusing to negotiate or participate, forcing recesses, and not even showing up to votes on funding bills earlier in September.

Then at the last minute they tried to push a stopgap CR bill forward, pretending like this wasn’t part of a plan to control the narrative and blame Democrats for a shutdown that Republicans deliberately created the conditions for; a clearly disingenuous effort considering how GOP representatives were absent during key votes leading up to the shutdown.

When Democrats offered a CR counterproposal of their own that included healthcare protections, Republicans rejected it outright. And Mike Johnson had the audacity to recently say that Republicans care more about healthcare than Democrats.

The original CR measure failed because Trump and his GOP lackeys refused to negotiate on rolling back their massive cuts to healthcare for millions of Americans *citizens,* and all while dismissing the reality that healthcare costs for Americans will increase considerably if ACA subsidies are not renewed.

Then of course there’s all the hysteria and lies about Democrats wanting to give healthcare to “ill-gals.”

At the same time, Instead of cooperating with Democrats to help avert a shutdown, Trump told them to “go fuck themselves” and chose to exploit the circumstances of a shutdown by prohibiting funding for Democrat run areas, by imposing mass layoffs, by threatening to permanently disrupt government services and operations, and by restricting access to aid and benefits, and all while he’s stated himself that this government shutdown is advantageous for him, regardless of who it impacts.

And just like the CR counterproposal that Democrats tried to pass before the shutdown, Republicans also stubbornly rejected a recent proposal to provide funding for SNAP.

Trump is hanging these things over the heads of Americans while he continues to taunt and “troll” Democrats at the expense of the public.

And while Americans suffer, Trump is showing them how disengaged he is and where his priorities lie as he throws tone deaf, elaborate parties and takes a wrecking ball to the White House so he can forge ahead with his invasive, hideously decorated and expensive ~~ballroom~~ vanity project while millions of Americans lose access to their benefits and while the government remains shut down

Trump has poured more time, energy, and resources into his building his oversized, Mar-a-Lago themed “ballroom,” than he has invested in addressing the economic issues he campaigned on.

Trump also insisted that a shutdown will benefit him politically, implying that he couldn’t care less about the harm his actions will inflict on Americans, their families and the federal workforce.

But apparently Dems are the villains in this scenario. Go figure…

This is “the democrat shutdown” according to Mike Johnson who is obviously toeing the line for Trump to prevent the release of what is very likely information that could implicate him in Epstein’s heinous crimes.

According to recent polls however, most Americans are holding Trump and the GOP responsible for this outcome.

The claim that Dems are to blame because they’re demanding that Republicans expand healthcare to “ill-gals” is an utter myth.

The Dem proposal includes nothing about giving healthcare to immigrants and merely asks that some healthcare cuts affecting *millions of American citizens* be rolled back, and that subsidies be extended so American healthcare costs don’t skyrocket.

Republicans have consolidated power throughout every branch of government. They are trying desperately to control the narrative and blame their political opponents; choosing to focus most of their energy on politicizing this outcome rather than resolving it. They’ve even made the laughable claim that, despite their trifecta of power, they’re not really “in charge” of the government.

Sadly, their voters have taken the bait…

Over and over again I hear, “Democrats want to spend your hard earned tax dollars on healthcare for undocumented immigrants.” This is right-wing propaganda that has been packaged in many different forms over the years.

There is nothing in the proposal about offering healthcare to immigrants. In fact, undocumented immigrants are barred from most federally funded healthcare programs.

What’s more, a lot of these immigrants pay taxes, and taxes that go towards funding for social programs. In other words, while immigrants help to pay for public benefits, they are also prohibited from receiving any coverage or aid of their own.

Democrats are not “shutting down the government because they want to give healthcare to ‘ill-gals!'” They have only asked Republicans to come to the table to help protect healthcare costs from surging and to rein in their massive cuts to Medicaid that they unanimously decided to deprive millions of Americans of under the guise of some bullshit, xenophobic narrative about immigrants stealing tax dollars. A tired narrative that they’ve relied on so often in the past.

Trump is the scum at the bottom of a garbage disposal that built up so bad you had to replace it. What kind of a human being let alone a President of a very wealthy country would not want to protect and feed the people that need it the most. And many who voted for him. Only a corrupt wanna be dictator would do something like this who is the puppet of organizations like the Heritage Foundation. That brings people like Miller and Vought into their cabinet. To think he wants SCOTUS to allow him to not release funds for SNAP is mind boggling.

That money won’t go out before December unless the sc forces them to do so. If it’s a milquetoast ruliing they’ll draw it out. Of course there is alwaysbthe worst case scenario that the sc backs the trump play

Cutting DNAP benefits during hard time was cruel from the start

I mean Wisconsin already rolled out SNAP payments for November.