(October 31, 2025 at 10:41 pm)Angrboda Wrote:Quote:The argument appears to contradict the department’s lapsed-funding plan, released in late September, which stated that Congress’s “evident” intent was for Snap operations to continue during a government shutdown and pointed to “multi-year contingency funds” that could be tapped in the event the closures dragged on. The plan has been removed from the department’s website.
The USDA’s website now carries a strikingly partisan notice, accusing Senate Democrats, incorrectly, of shutting down the government to provide healthcare to undocumented immigrants and trans Americans. “Bottom line, the well has run dry,” the notice says. “At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...suspension
It's like blaming Democrats for dead hostages. Dems are fighting for health-care. Republicans are holding federal workers and military personnel hostage to deny the extension of ACA supplements.
Apparently, they'd rather tear down the operational services of government in order to deny health-care to those who most need help ... yet they won't put the high-income tax-breaks on the chopping-block to keep gov't moving efficiently.
