Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J. Trump’s celebration of his new marble bathroom in the White House was so tone deaf at a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are at risk, that it seemed likely to make the history books as a symbol of this administration.
Although two federal judges yesterday found that the administration’s refusal to use reserves Congress provided to fund SNAP in an emergency was likely illegal and one ordered the government to use that money, the administration did not immediately do as the judge ordered.
Trump posted on social media that “[o]ur Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP,” so he has “instructed our lawyers to ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible.” Blaming the Democrats for the shutdown, Trump added that “even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while States get the money out.” His post provided the phone number for Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s office, telling people: “If you use SNAP benefits, call the Senate Democrats, and tell them to reopen the Government, NOW!”
“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
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ReplyDeleteWhen I read this book junior year of Highschool I thought it was a depiction of a society we would never come to. However, I was proved wrong. This presidential election has shown the need for people to be educated. You can walk up to people and ask who they voted for and why, and you will see that many people don't have a reason to why they voted except because that's how their family voted.
The fact that very beneficial programs like Food stamps, Medicaid, and so many more are being cut making people who needed them go hungry and somehow the rich still benefit. The president of OUR country doesn't care that many people are starving as long as he gets his grand ballroom. We as the people need to be able to do something about the unconstitutional way this country is being ran.
Yes. It starts with paying attention, educating ourselves, and voting, but does not end there. We the people have to participate, raise our voices, and demand proper representation.
DeleteNot anon, that was me.
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