cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38674008
The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments.
The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown.
After that request to block was denied, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments.
The application to stay reads: “If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.
I really don’t understand the argument at all. If we spend the money as intended we won’t get it back? The fuck did they expect?
They are, I think, correctly defined morons.
That’s not “running the government like a business.”
This is Trump’s administration. Which not only means “don’t give money away,” but also that they have to bankrupt it before discarding it.
Like money-vampires, draining the
companycountry until it’s no more than a poverty-stricken husk.These monsters will do and say anything to uphold that goal.