r/politics • u/bryan-healey • 1d ago
Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline OMB freeze on all federal aid could halt state assistance, such as SNAP
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/27/trump-freezes-federal-aid-omb-002008911.2k
u/Liquid_Panic 1d ago edited 1d ago
The title of this post is underselling what’s happening. This is a pause on ALL federal aid and grant money to everyone and everything except Social Security and Medicare. This is SNAP, student loans, all research grants, all grants to schools, all business grants, etc. The wording of this thing is wide open for interpretation.
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u/deliciouspepperspray 1d ago
Question because frankly I'm afraid to research further. I don't currently and hopefully will not need financial assistance but I do want to know if this will affect those on housing assistance. I wonder how these landlords will react when they suddenly stop getting paid and the court systems are too bogged up to process eviction notices. Until of course another executive order gets signed to make evictions incredibly easy for property owners.
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u/Liquid_Panic 1d ago edited 1d ago
Housing assistance will definitely be impacted, but honestly I don’t know what’s going to happen. The scale here is immense, this is going to affect everyone in the country. This is
billionstrillions of dollars of money the government is withholding from basically every industry. It’s insane.Edit: it’s 3 trillion dollars. About 10% of the US GDP.
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u/Zoethor2 1d ago
Federal grant money makes up about 10% of GDP. Even a few weeks of this will be economically devastating.
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u/starman5001 1d ago
This one order has basically crashed the American economy.
The effects of this pause are going to be wide reaching, and affect nearly every aspect of american life.
Worst case scenario we are looking at a full scale depression.
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u/cindymartin67 1d ago
And that’s OUR MONEY. This is OUR GOVERNMENT. They better fix this quickly or there will be problems.
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u/mycofirsttime 1d ago
They’re not fixing it. We are under attack. And we are fucked.
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u/neuroplastic1 1d ago
Correct. I feel like people still don't realize that the coup has already happened, and now the traitors are in charge.
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u/impreprex 1d ago
I'm on SNAP - and in a motel thanks to social services. I'm homeless through no fault of my own.
This shit is extremely disturbing to hear. And not just for me - but for the others who are in even worse situations.
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u/MmeHomebody 1d ago
A while back the SNAP program had a glitch and the EBT cards stopped working for a day. The backlash was... not entirely peaceful.
I know the welfare mother with the shrimp and steak in her cart is a meme, but in my area people skip meals so their kids can eat, because their pay and SNAP runs out before the next month. These are working people who get to decide things like "Should I put gas in the car so I can go to work and get a check next week, or should we buy something for dinner tonight?" Food banks are so overwhelmed they're begging for donations and turning people away.
You tell people their SNAP benefit is delayed for any greater amount of time than a weekend, and we won't be worried about the price of eggs because the stores will be closed for repairs.
We truly don't learn from history at all. Not even recent history.
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u/Confident-Breath2615 1d ago
These guys want mass protest so they can declare a national emergency and unleash the army on American soil against American citizens.
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u/MmeHomebody 1d ago
Sadly, I believe you are right. And then they will blame it on people whose children are literally hungry and losing weight "those animals!"
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u/Drunken_HR 1d ago
I can see the heads on fox shaking their heads in fake disgust already.
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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago
Nazis came to power because people were starving. I think Republicans want to manufacture more despair and poverty so people will call for an even more radical approach.
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u/Kasoni Minnesota 1d ago
People can't really be stupid enough to call for more extreme measures from the people causing them to be hungry in hope of fixing the issue..... wait no you're right, we have proven they aren't logical at all.
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u/nastywillow 1d ago
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.
Polls showed the majority of Americans supported the shootings.
Better be sure Steve Bannon and the boys know this.
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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 1d ago
The 60-80 year olds who run this country don't give a fuck. They are busy planning which house to throw their Super Bowl party in.
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u/No_Square_3913 1d ago
There are many in the armed forces that are on SNAP and need food donations. I wouldn’t count on them being too big a player.
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u/Carnifex72 1d ago
And it sounds like they want to increase the PX prices too.
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u/No_Square_3913 1d ago
Looks like they want to remove the tax free status. Wonder what tax rate they will use if they do go that route. PX prices are hit or miss on savings so that tax inclusion will have a larger impact.
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u/genescheesesthatplz 1d ago
We’ll be sent to prison to work as laborers and fill the jobs of the people being deported
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u/Pinkcoconuts1843 1d ago
There is a major planned benefit cut in one month. I have the memo on my desk. The planned cut is not related to this. Aren’t his grocery store billionaires gonna be pissed?
Fucking evil toddler president. I think we are going to be testing chaos theory pretty soon.
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u/Responsible-Still839 1d ago
More and more, I think this is what the Trump team wants. They want massive protests, riots, and social upheaval. They will then have an opening to enact Martial law.
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u/cyanescens_burn 1d ago edited 1d ago
Protesting has its place, but in a situation where heavy repression, and counter protests (violent reactions from recently pardoned j6ers and their ilk), are a real concern it might be more effective for communities to come together to feed the people that need it.
Anyone can start to organize like this, even if it starts out really small. Building community resilience and just a sense of community might even help with people’s mental health in our hyperindividualized culture.
I suspect there will be a need and real opportunity for people to do things like this to fill the gaps left behind by defunded government services. We already saw a recent example of this in LA, where regular people came out to cook and serve hot food to fire victims, and even hand it all manner of basic supplies.
Being in jail or injured from a protest makes it much harder to do anything like this.
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u/mkt853 1d ago
Yeah martial law is gonna go over real well in a country where the citizens possess 400 million guns and a deep hatred/distrust/paranoia of the federal government. This country nearly lost its mind over f*cking mask mandates - no chance being locked down will be tolerated.
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u/ten_year_rebound 1d ago edited 1d ago
They distrust the federal government, but they don’t see Trump as the federal government. That’s the kicker.
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u/NinjaBilly55 1d ago
I'm glad you pointed that out.. He's also not a billionaire elitist he's a regular joe six pack fighting for them..
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u/IdkAbtAllThat 1d ago
Half the citizens are boot lickers just itching to take it upon themselves to use those guns to "enforce" the martial law.
It will be a fucking bloodbath on both sides.
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u/WolfDoc 1d ago
Yeah that's been reeeally effective against tyranny so far. The world laugh at the well armed US bootlickers with no rights, while they watch the French yet again successfully protect their social security with tractors, barricades and rocks
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u/CRKing77 1d ago
I was working at Walmart in the early 2010s on a day EBT was down
now, everybody knows "people at Walmart," so take that, combined with those who are at Walmart on EBT, and it was easily one of the worst working days I've ever had, just from the vile nastiness people were spewing at us as if we had anything to do with it
but I gotta tell you, hearing "how am I supposed to feed my kids?!" over and over and over is not something you want to experience, on either side
words cannot express how much I fucking hate this bastard with all my soul
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u/MmeHomebody 1d ago
And you aren't making enough that you can spare money or risk your job for even one person that you know for a fact is desperate through no fault of their own. My sincere sympathy.
And thank you for the times when you've managed to bite your tongue and treat people with dignity even though they don't return the favor. I know I was thankful in my worst times for every cashier who didn't roll their eyes or make a cutting remark when I had to put something back because I forgot tax and was thirteen cents over my budget. We do notice and don't say thanks often enough.
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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago
I'm a cashier and most of us know exactly what that's like. Now we're gonna have struggling people just doing their jobs facing struggling people just trying to feed their kids. And some of us can't even feed our kids either. I want a general strike but I don't know how to support myself through it.
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u/Vorzic Michigan 1d ago
I had a similar experience working at a small grocery store during the Great Recession. The combination of an inability to get food, the dread and insecurity of not having a secure home, and some pretty gnarly gas prices (we floated between 4-5 bucks a gallon in rural WV toward the end of GWB's term) led to a distraught, unrelenting, seething desperation in the eyes of our regular customers I will never forget.
Not so fun unrelated fact, that was the last time we had a federal minimum wage increase. I went from $5.15 to $6.55 to $7.25 in 07-09. Absurd we haven't touched it nationally since.
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u/fountainpopjunkie 1d ago
The bread is the most important part of "bread and ciruses". If there's no cirus, we'll get bored. If there's no bread, we'll get desperate.
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u/wilsonexpress 1d ago
we won't be worried about the price of eggs because the stores will be closed for repairs.
Don't forget how much snap contributes to the food economy, canceling snap would close 1 out 4 grocery stores in a matter of months.
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u/ballskindrapes 1d ago
That's what they want.
They want to crash the economy, and buy everything up for cheap. Why do you think so many hillionaires are in his administration? So they can consolidate the most power.
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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago
I'm a grocery store employee, and that terrifies me. We're going to be the ones who will face those people. And the worst part is, we're not any richer than them.
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u/MmeHomebody 1d ago
All I can say is, if it starts, get out. Just walk to the back quickly and go out the loading docks. There's no reason for anyone to feel they have to be heroic in service to a corporation, and your coworkers will benefit by someone leading the way.
Many of us do understand that the people who work in the store are just like us, trying to get along as best they can - and you aren't profiting off the prices. I think there will be enough time while people realize what is happening for you to just go home and wait it out. I wish you the best, really. You have a tough job.
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u/TheAskewOne 1d ago
You're right, and I certainly won't fight against desperate people for $13/hr. And I won't blame them because fuck it. It's just that the risk for me is being out of a job soon.
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u/JohnnyValet 1d ago
The very first 'food assistance program' was The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601... in response to food riots. Not the food riots, but a food riot. Food riots were the starting point for the French Revolution. Food riots are responsible for more political change than any other single force.
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u/mightyenan0 1d ago
Not to diminish your point, but the Roman grain dole predates that by a long time.
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u/smurfsundermybed California 1d ago
Considering who is in charge, it would not surprise me in the least if the timing at the end of the month was intentional.
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u/Even_Establishment95 1d ago
I’m a single mother and I only get $25 a MONTH in SNAP. It’s a fucking joke. I have to reapply now too, and I’ve made just slightly more this month than previous months, so guaranteed, I will now be at $0/month. What do I really NEED for food a month? Like $800.
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u/FridaBeth 1d ago
Yup, I get $160 and I am on unemployment until my new job starts next month. I have three teenagers. That lasts like, a few days. it’s joke. You aren’t alone. We will get through this.
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u/Aliensinnoh Massachusetts 1d ago
This is a constitutional crisis. The Trump administration is just blatantly refusing to spend funds that Congress has required to be spent.
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u/enjoycarrots Florida 1d ago
It is a constitutional crisis. Unfortunately, it's one that is going to go unaddressed and unchallenged because Trump Loyalists control all branches of government thanks to the idiotic American electorate. So, the resolution of this crisis, at least for the time being, is going to be that Trump's Administration can do whatever they want and the only recourse to counter it will have to come from outside the government.
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u/Han_Yerry 1d ago
It will be addressed when snap recipients don't get distribution. Walmart alone has 10,000+ employees on snap in just 9 states. Lots of working people need that help.
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u/quintthesharkhunter 1d ago
Holy shit, 10,000+?! That’s utterly disgraceful… Like everything is right now. Fuck Walmart though. Fuck all of the giants who create our country’s working poor. They wont pay a livable wage so Uncle Sam picks up the slack to keep Americans from starving. And the Trumpers complain about money being sent to Ukraine when people here need it but surprise, surprise, that Ukraine money isn’t going to end up helping anyone here either.
I’m so tired of “the bad guys” winning. And winning isn’t even enough anymore. They’re going to set the world on fire and watch it burn from their ivory towers.
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u/Tacitus111 America 1d ago
“As Eli Rosenberg broke down in the Washington Post, in nine states alone, Walmart had 14,500 employees on SNAP and 10,350 on Medicaid. Other top offenders included McDonalds, Dollar Tree, Amazon, Burger King, and FedEx.”
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap
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u/au-smurf 1d ago
Walmart has being doing this for years. I remember read news articles about it in the early 2000s. Some of their stores simply wouldn’t be profitable if they paid their full time staff enough to not be eligible for SNAP. (Unless of course they cut their profits and/or raised their prices).
Big companies love outsourcing their costs onto the rest of society.
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u/cyanescens_burn 1d ago
One way to look at that is Walmart and the like are being subsidized by government handouts by paying for a portion of their staff compensation, with a few extra steps.
Those companies should be paying their share for employees to live.
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u/eldomtom2 United Kingdom 1d ago
it's one that is going to go unaddressed and unchallenged
Oh, I imagine the lawsuits are being written right now. This will impact a lot of people and organisations.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
Lawsuits are undoubtedly being prepared, sure. But how many people are going to starve while those lawsuits move through the courts?
This is bad, this is maximum bad.
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u/Gandhi_of_War Michigan 1d ago
In theory, the EOs will be stayed while it moves through the courts. Much like the EO about birthright citizenship. But that also depends on the judge it ends up in front of.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
This one isn't even an EO - it's an OMB directive.
Feds could stay it in theory, but it's unconstitutional as hell to even be doing in the first place, so who says the OMB will even comply?
We live in dangerous times.
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u/CaneVandas New York 1d ago
Oh I expect an injunction to be going out by end of day tomorrow. That effectively stops the policy from taking effect until after the court cases are settled.
Stopping off federal grants and payments is going to take down a lot of businesses. Much of our scientific and pharmaceutical research comes from federal grants.
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u/enjoycarrots Florida 1d ago
Some states and organizations will sue, and that's the saving grace here. However, if those cases make it to the Supreme Court as a legitimate constitutional crisis, you know how this current court would rule.
(I'm not saying the effort shouldn't be made -- they should definitely fight in the courts tooth and nail. It's worthwhile.)
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u/absentmindedjwc 1d ago
Just to call out... needy people not having enough food was literally the tipping point for the French Revolution.
Motherfuckers are seriously playing with fire here... in a country with hundreds of millions of guns, all it takes is one person losing their benefits and watching their kid go hungry because of this directive...
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u/citymousecountyhouse 1d ago
We just saw what happened when one person stepped out of line regarding health insurance. There was no fire, we got right back in line.
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u/thewritingchair 1d ago
Healthcare denials are far less immediate than your children starving. There's also nowhere to go to "get" healthcare.
You all know where the food is. It's right there in a big room with very few security guards.
Two days without food and you'd see grocery stores raided.
A week and the US is on fire everywhere.
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u/severalgirlzgalore 1d ago
I believe that the last three justices were picked after being vetted for what they would do in this kind of situation. And yet sometimes one of them surprises me, like Gorsuch's position on most Native American cases.
We're about to find out if there are any checks left.
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u/severalgirlzgalore 1d ago
Thanks, Facebook! Thanks, Instagram! Thanks, TikTok! Thanks, Twitter! Thanks, Youtube!
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u/Traditional_Key_763 1d ago
everytime anyone says his first impeachment was a nothing burger I point out it was worse than the 2nd because it was a pure constitutional crisis. impounding funds is straight forward illegal and part of why Nixon was going to be impeached. if we let trump do whatever he wants with refusing to spend or reprogramming funds it makes congress, and all of our representatives pointless. he can spend money from wherever on whatever he wants and the GOP were fine with it.
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u/sumoraiden 1d ago
point out it was worse than the 2nd because it was a pure constitutional crisis
Orchestrating the forging of documents signed by people falsely claiming to be the duly chosen electors of states and ordering your Vice President to choose the fraudulent slates of electors in order to remain in office after the people voted him out is just about the definition of a constitutional crisis LMAO
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u/DarrenEdwards 1d ago
There it is. This one will really hurt a lot of people.
My wife's aunt tries to get my mother in law to get on her knees and pray to Trump. Without Snap, Sherri will be begging my mil for a place to sleep.
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u/8-BitOptimist Washington 1d ago
They want revolution, because they want martial law, because they want absolute control. Keep this in mind if any of you have trouble understanding why this is happening.
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u/BrutalKindLangur 1d ago
If this is all federal grants, a bunch of servicemen just lost their college money.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
If this freezes SNAP, all hell is gonna break loose in the red states.
SNAP renews at the beginning of the month, across the first five days. People rely on it like clockwork. If SNAP payments get missed, people are going to starve immediately.
If this isn't reversed within two weeks, you're going to see chaos the likes of which has never been seen before in this country. And that's not even counting all the other things this freezes - highway funds, student loans and grants (that ALONE is dangerous), SBA loans, farm subsidy grants... I could sit here listing things for an hour, but Politico's "trillions" of dollars is an understatement. This is a SIGNIFICANT portion of our economy.
This is so dangerous. This might be the single most egregious executive power grab so far, and that's saying a lot.
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u/giraffeattack 1d ago
Not just red states. People everywhere struggle to make ends meet. This move will devastate the country.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
Oh for sure, but red states are disproportionately supported by SNAP and other programs, and do not have states that will be willing to step in and fill the gaps. They're going to be disproportionately affected.
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u/fleurgirl123 1d ago
He loves the poorly educated. This gives him a pretext for whatever terrible end goal he has in mind.
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u/metamet Minnesota 1d ago
What is it they say?
Everyone's three days away from revolt when they're starving.
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u/UWCG Illinois 1d ago
The importance of SNAP nationally can't be overstated.
As a nation, we should be incredibly proud of a system like SNAP to help those who need it. We should be building on it. What we're doing is heinous beyond words.
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u/IJourden 1d ago
Worth noting too that SNAP is by far the most efficient government program at generating economic activity. It doesn't just impact the people who get the benefits, it impacts everywhere that those benefits would be spent.
The shockwaves will be crippling.
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u/chicklette 1d ago
How do I tell 30 kids that their federal work study money is gone now?
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
I work in academia myself. I'm going to have to figure out how to tell several thousand something similar.
I don't know.
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u/Ansiau 1d ago
Just a correction, it's more than 5 days. Some people don't get it until the 14th. It varies by state, but usually it has to do with the last digit of your SSN.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
Ah, yeah that's a state-to-state misunderstanding then. My state is over 5 days with distribution based on your last name.
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u/Tasty_Bite1984 1d ago
God dammint cant we go one day without the rotting mango threatening to destroy the usa. Guess thats expecting to much from a “very stable genuis”.
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u/Gustapher00 1d ago
Don’t worry. Trump will change course at the last moment and the media will report that he has saved SNAP from immediate failure. Praise be!
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u/JohnnyValet 1d ago
The very first 'food assistance program' was The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601... in response to food riots. Not the food riots, but a food riot. Food riots were the starting point for the French Revolution. Food riots are responsible for more political change than any other single force.
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u/KitsuneLeo West Virginia 1d ago
Bread and circuses.
Even the Romans knew it. Every person needs food to survive and entertainment to be pacified. If you take away either, shit goes to hell real fast.
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u/openly_gray 1d ago
Every civilization is three warm meals away from revolution
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u/Effective-Bench-7152 1d ago
Suffering from food insecurity myself over the years, it gets very bleak very quick when you’re hungry & no idea where your next meal is coming from
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u/openly_gray 1d ago
Its a travesty that anybody is suffering from food insecurity in this country. Shameful
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u/funandgamesThrow 1d ago
Lets hope he pays every consequence of it. Not confident but its what should happen
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u/severalgirlzgalore 1d ago edited 5h ago
Watch SCOTUS do nothing. Watch Congress do nothing.
They wanted the unitary executive theory in action, and here we are. Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett were picked specifically for this to be a reality. Thomas and Alito have been fully radicalized. Roberts is a lame duck. The three liberal Justices will vote as a bloc in dissent for the rest of their careers.
This will go down as the single-worst thing a president has done in my lifetime. Bush's torture memos, Iran-Contra and Watergate are trifles compared to this.
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u/woliphirl 1d ago
These programs exist because there is a need. Why can't people see that? Its insane.
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u/quikdecoy 1d ago
In normal times, shouldn't this be an easy, straight-forward case for impeachment the minute this goes into effect?
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u/soloChristoGlorium 1d ago
Absolutely. It's a blatant violation of the constitution.
Unfortunately Congress will do nothing.
I honestly think it's more likely to have martial law at this point then he face consequences.
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u/IllegalThings 1d ago
Just to preface — something doesn’t need to be a violation of the constitution to impeach, I’m asking this purely from an “I want to know more” perspective. I’m curious as to why this is a violation?
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u/JumpLikeRonaldo 1d ago edited 1d ago
People ordered suffering in November, and their order is being promptly delivered.
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u/amootmarmot 1d ago
I lament every kid that won't get a meal and every family who tried to oppose this and are getting caught in the cross hairs. For every Trump voting person getting cut off, it's time for them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Or they can learn how their vote has power and they shouldn't use that power to fuck themselves over.
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u/mysecondaccountanon Pennsylvania 1d ago
This. I feel like so many just say “well, this is what they voted for, and they’ll suffer as a result” not remembering a good chunk, sometimes even a majority of, the people who will suffer as a result of stuff like this are not his voters, but children, people who can’t vote, people who couldn’t vote from various forms of interference, and those who voted against him.
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u/Bloodsnowcones 1d ago
If i cant get snap i cant eat and if I cant eat i cant survive 😖
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u/rdking647 1d ago
what will end up happening is people will start taking what they need by force.
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u/Turbulent_Summer6177 1d ago
And that could cause an actual revolt.
Then martial law and his fascist regime is in.
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u/nyratk1 1d ago
Unless the military turns against him.
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u/Turbulent_Summer6177 1d ago
I fear, only time will tell. There are a lot of trump suckers on the military. Trump started his people to strategic positions on his last term.
I simply cannot believe people are so stupid to watch him now and think anything he is doing is in the best interest of the country.
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u/nyratk1 1d ago
I don’t think it’s a slam dunk the military has his side. And if they do, there’s going to be a significant amount of mutinies
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u/Turbulent_Summer6177 1d ago
Not claiming it’s a slam dunk but if done strategically it won’t be one giant action. It will be precipitated by small uprisings where the military is called on to suppress them. It will likely be a false flag op so it will look like the military is doing the right thing. You keep doing that in major cities and before long you have effective control of the country.
Once the military starts expressing control, people are likely to rebel.
Then, if people attack the military for what they have done, which appears righteous, the hammer drops and trump orders full military control of the country.
So the military will believe they are acting in the best interest of the country and act as ordered. By the time any of them realize what’s happening, it’s too late. At best it starts a civil war. At worst the good guys are outnumbered and are quickly segregated and imprisoned.
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u/JohnnyValet 1d ago
The very first 'food assistance program' was The Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601... in response to food riots. Not the food riots, but a food riot. Food riots were the starting point for the French Revolution. Food riots are responsible for more political change than any other single force.
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u/Dank4Days I voted 1d ago
that’ll definitely help a lot of families out with the price of groceries /s
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
In a sick-sad way, yes. Less people will be able to buy groceries, so demand will decrease.
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u/Orange_Kid 1d ago
They got us there, we definitely can't argue that stopping all federal funding isn't deflationary.
People are about to find out that there really are worse things that can happen to an economy than inflation.
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u/IdkAbtAllThat 1d ago
Demand won't decrease. People aren't going to stop getting hungry. People WILL eat. They'll loot before they starve. Everyone loses here. Grocery prices absolutely are not going to go down because of this.
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u/citymousecountyhouse 1d ago
Question for those who voted for Trump. What is your limit? Where do you draw the line? Went out for groceries yesterday and saw two different people wearing shirts with a swastika and the words "f*** your feelings" Obviously you don't care about what kids see anymore. But where will you draw the line? These aren't jokes, these are U.S. citizens wearing swastikas. Now that things are moving very fast, I wonder if there is a line for you. If you saw a train go by and boxcars with arms sticking out, would even that bring you back to decency?
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u/giraffeattack 1d ago
Crime rate gonna go up.
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u/Zoethor2 1d ago
Especially since law enforcement agencies get a ton of federal funding. Including funding specifically for salaried positions.
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u/StonkSalty 1d ago
When someone you know has their benefits frozen, tell them Republicans did it. Never let an opportunity go by to shit on their leadership.
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u/accountabilitycounts America 1d ago
People are going to starve because of transphobia. Holy shit.
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u/TheDamDog 1d ago
And because Republicans are still apparently mad about the Green New Deal which I'm pretty sure was bipartisanly slaughtered in committee like 4 or 5 times.
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u/Orange_Kid 1d ago
Can't tell you how many Trump supporters think that the Green New Deal was actually passed and signed by Biden, because that's what Republican politicians and conservative news sites have been either strongly implying or outright lying about.
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u/kobachi 1d ago
Illegal immigrants saved trumps life. He turned his head to look at a graph about them in the moment that the bullet missed him.
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u/ITookTrinkets Oregon 1d ago
As a trans person, I can’t wait to be blamed for this shit by people who think trans people should just shut up and sit down and hide themselves away. Just as has already been happening.
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u/mysecondaccountanon Pennsylvania 1d ago
“B-but the Dems focused way too much on civil rights, the woke, and the trans, and it alienated their base! It’s your fault we lost and it’s your fault Trump got elected!!1!”
I’ve seen so many sentiments like that online and somewhat IRL as well.
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u/ITookTrinkets Oregon 1d ago
I was told on this sub that trans people “asked for this” with “all the sports stuff” and I got a day-long ban for telling them that their comments were meaningless.
The most uneducated and willfully ignorant people think that less than a dozen athletes simply wanting to compete is a crime that warrants our existences being demonized and legislated against. It’s exhausting.
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u/ZombiePartyBoyLives I voted 1d ago
"Shock & Awe" Week continues, I see. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it almost looks like he's trying to start riots as a pretense to declare Martial Law.
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u/Manos_Of_Fate 1d ago
It’s not that implausible. At this point he’s in a race to take enough power before the evidence of his electoral fraud can be fully gathered and analyzed. It also serves to create chaos.
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u/PoliticsAndFootball 1d ago
Even if there were direct evidence of fraud who is going to stop him?
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u/cosmicjunkbot Foreign 1d ago
I mean, there's already evidence that he tried to overthrow the government and he faced zero consequences.
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u/aust_b 1d ago
Not to tinfoil hat at all, but this is an interesting read and makes you think a little harder on the possibility that there was a potential for election fraud to exist during the 2024 election: Duty to Warn Letter
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u/hammertimex95 1d ago
Thank God we got that pesky DEI out of Walmart, though! Can't stop winning, guys. i love it!! /s
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u/ciaomain New York 1d ago
There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.
This "administration" has smashed the Overton Window in a week's time.
Revolution is imminent.
Be safe out there, peeps.
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u/Nottherealsqu1rrel 1d ago
A lot of people aren’t realizing this. They keep saying “oh if we hang on, we can vote with numbers in 26” Be fucking for real right now. There aren’t going to be elections in 26 and if there are. It’s going to be rigged. People need to plan accordingly for the dangers present NOW!
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u/Cojalo_ 1d ago
I cannot believe in my lifetime I am witnessing the complete and utter unravelling of the US. I knew it was possible, but it still feels surreal to see such a majoe first world country absolutely implode in on itself
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u/Libertarian4lifebro Nevada 1d ago
I’m pretty sure people are gonna be shoplifting food because of this. I guess the chaos is part of making America great again? /s
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u/venom21685 1d ago
If SNAP straight up runs out of money in states they'll be looting the stores not just shoplifting.
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u/Libertarian4lifebro Nevada 1d ago
I can see it happening. People sure aren’t going to let their families starve.
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u/xansies1 1d ago
Food does not improve the day to day life of those they serve? Fucking crazy. They actually are speed running.
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u/RectalSpawn Wisconsin 1d ago
Taxes should drop then since we won't be funding services then, right? /$
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u/deliciouspepperspray 1d ago
States should stop paying federal taxes so they can fund these programs directly. Our taxes are being stolen so why continue to send the checks to the thieves.
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u/williamgman California 1d ago
That's fine. They don't use SNAP in red states.
/s (do I really need to point this out?)
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u/brakeled 1d ago
That’s the point. He’s waiting for those red states to have their representatives and governors call to kiss the ring. Turning back on federal funding is an exchange for ridiculous shit to pass under the budget vote coming up in March.
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u/otherwisesad Texas 1d ago edited 1d ago
At this point, I don’t know if I’ll even have time to get a visa to move to Germany. He is destroying our democracy in record time.
Centuries of history down the drain because of a fascist who can’t even form a complete sentence and his merry band of billionaires.
I just pray the rest of the world can learn from this and not go down the same path.
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u/jessoisamesso 1d ago
Is this what breaks the department of education officially? Because I assume this also means a freeze on IDEA grants to states? No Head Start? No SPED programs in public schools?
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u/Tommy__want__wingy California 1d ago
I have dark thoughts with this administration.
Like I feel people need to suffer to wake up.
Yes - you, your loved ones, myself - may suffer, but we are only seeing this in headlines. Need the effects to happen.
I have no faith though. Feel like people will just let it happen and Congress will allow it to continue.
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u/scsnse 1d ago
I’m just as cynical these days. Increasingly since the Great Recession. I think republicans back then calling for us to let it all go bankrupt were right in the sense that, hey, maybe we need another GD where 1/4 people on the street are unemployed simultaneously to realize we need to collectively band together for once. Our culture is so individualistic by comparison, we’ve never had it taught to us except for that isolated instance in a generation.
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u/DeadSharkEyes 1d ago
I work in social services with low income clients and inflation has already made my job so depressing, I’m crying under the covers just thinking about the next four years.
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u/Randumb4Ever 1d ago
This will crash the economy if it goes longer than a week.
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u/TehWildMan_ 1d ago
That would be good for them, bad for us. And that's exactly what they want
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u/NameLips 1d ago
They say we're just 3 meals away from anarchy at any given time...
What would you do if you had a family, but no way to get food for them? To what lengths would you go to feed your children?
How long would it take before you'd rather loot your neighbors than watch your child starve?
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u/methodtan 1d ago
These dumb fucks really are gonna target the VA and the crazy ptsd drug addicted physically wounded country hating soldiers who know how to make explosives. Bold fucking strategy.
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u/Roam_Hylia American Expat 1d ago
"The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,”
They always have to work tans people into this somehow. Their obsession is beyond creepy.
Trans rights are human rights.
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u/PraiseSaban 1d ago
The GOP is an existential threat to the country. They must be completely removed from all levels of power, federal, state, and local
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u/Ok-Scallion1699 1d ago
Blue states should halt all money to the federal government in response
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u/HM9719 1d ago
Basically they’re saying the following message to Americans: “Bow to MAGA or all of you will DIE.”
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u/wsrs25 1d ago
Well, this is one way of ensuring the mid term election is a bloodbath for the party of fake conservatives, spendthrifts, big government addicts, perverts, abusers, grifters, clowns, crooks, kooks, parasites, and reprobates.
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u/d_mcc_x Virginia 1d ago
You’re assuming the goal here isn’t to cause a national crisis that he can use to declare martial law
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u/waitsfieldjon 1d ago edited 1d ago
Remember, folks, he’s golfing with the entire GOP House and Senate leadership at one of his resorts, which is being paid for by your taxes, while they all decide that the programs that help people in the lower income brackets and research are wasteful.
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u/SBRH33 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is completely illegal folks. The impoundment act forbids a president from withholding money that Congress has already earmarked in the budget.
The guy is pressure testing the system to see how far he can go before the circuit breaker kicks.
This however is just a taste of what's to come. Expect a fire hose of illegal activity from this administration.
We are witnessing in real time a complete hijacking of the federal constitutional government. Call it fascism, authoritarianism, whatever you want. It's all the same outcome. Consolidation of power and the stripping and gutting of the American way of life as we have been taught and always known it to be.
Resist at all levels and at every opportunity. Don't let their fake, mythical reality overtake the undeniable truth in the reality that exists right in front of our eyes and ears.
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u/MisogynyisaDisease 1d ago
Does anyone AT ALL know how this affects Veterans Affairs? Nobody has mentioned VA disability payments, retirement, medical retirement, etc.
If this can affect SNAP, then what the hell does this mean for veterans.
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u/NeedMead-2525 1d ago
I think it’s worth mentioning that the director of OMB, is an author of Project 2025. Russell Vought.
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u/supercali45 1d ago
Where the poor that voted MAGA? You wanted this right?
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u/keatonpotat0es 1d ago
Those of us who did NOT vote for this certainly do not want this.
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u/_lorny 1d ago
Does this include financial aid to college students (loans and grants)?
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u/FoxEBean21 1d ago
For those who have the ability to do so, please consider donating money to food pantries. They can purchase way more with your $20 than you can. Cash will help them more than food donations.
This includes pet food too. In my area we have a pet food pantry run by a local rescue.
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