• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    Alternate headline: Judge tries to save the poor from starvation and save Republicans from themselves.

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    Democrats say Republicans could end the shutdown by agreeing to certain health care provisions, including an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits.

    Yes to this.

    Keep it shut down and stay on that measage. Dems should not give in on this. RAISE THE SHIELD WALL, HOLD THE FRONT LINE

    I donate to a local food bank to help those that need it while we hold the line. Please do the same.

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    And he won’t. Hell also claw back on his promise of half now because someone said he had to give it all. Welcome to being ruled by a toddler ya fucks!

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      Toddlers have more empathy than Trump. A toddler with more food than they could possibly eat would share it with someone who is hungry.

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        We’re currently in a drive-thru pickup line, and my 4 y.o. is having an absolute shitfit because his older sister…

        He has more empathy than Trump.

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      Considering that the states that Trump won in 2024 cover a majority of the SNAP participants, its quite likely that quite a few people on SNAP literally voted for this. And next month there won’t be any backup funds for SNAP. Its going to be a very interesting, and hopefully eye-opening, Holiday experience for a lot of people… I know it will hurt a lot of my neighbors and relatives who voted for it a lot more than it will me.

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    I think that there’s a good argument that we need a review of programs and to explicitly indicate their status in law regarding funding when there’s no budget ahead of time. Having all this worked out by courts at the last minute under extreme time pressure is a mess. Makes it much harder to plan.

    Yes, ideally we’d never have shutdowns, but they do happen, and in the past few years we’ve had an unusually high number. Better to be prepared.

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      In most EU countries, if there really is a blowup over the budget (much rarer than the US), the old budget remains in place until a new one is negotiated.

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      SNAP actually did that. There’s an several billion dollar emergency buffer fund that was established for exactly this situation. Trump and his cronies decided to not use it though.

      The judge is trying to make sure the plan that was established is followed instead of Trump getting to just choose who benefits from his whims

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        He’ll say all the money is gone, because he had to bail out a Russian yacht manufacturer, but it created a lot of jobs, and was very profitable. For Russians.

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        So they didn’t do it. The buffer is just more money in the same bucket they just hope they don’t have to use, but they have direct control over neither. Emergency powers should probably transfer to an impartial body of possible recipient analysts so funds cannot be used as political fodder.

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      Or else the head of the executive branch of the United States will enforce those orders. Oh wait…

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    And if he doesnt they will tell him to do it in a slightly harsher tone.