The Trump administration is telling states not to pay full November food stamp benefits, revising its previous guidance after winning a temporary victory at the Supreme Court on Friday.
USDA’s latest memo, sent Saturday to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instructed states to deliver just 65 percent of benefits during the government shutdown and required those who already sent full payments to claw back that money.
“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025,” the memo notes.
Intentional cruelty is a happmark of modern "conservatism" and this administration.
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy:
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
-JK Galbraith
...also:
https://www.highly-respected.com/p/anti-social-libertarianism
which starts:
A lot of people on the Right really hate it when you defend property taxes. Many of the responses were ill-informed, with some believing it went solely to left-wing causes, illegal immigrants, Section 8 housing, orwelfare. Many held fantasies that roads, police, and fire departments naturally exist on their own. One person even claimed most roads were built years ago, so you no longer need taxes to support them. Some even began defending the federal income tax, claiming it can pay for all your local needs. Nearly all the critics were unaware that America has always had property taxes, yet they were all confident that it’s a newly-imposed tyranny...
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