Senate Advances Deal To Reopen Government, Fully Restore SNAP Benefits ,

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The Senate took a massive step forward on its way to reopening the government on Sunday, with a group of Senate Democrats caving and joining Republicans in their bid to pass a revamped plan to end the shutdown. 

 

Signs that the shutdown, which entered its 40th day, could be ending became more and more clear as the day went on, particularly with the unveiling of a bipartisan package of spending bills that lawmakers hope to attach to a modified bill to reopen the government. 

 

Eight Senate Democrats crossed the aisle to mark the first step in the GOP’s quest to end the shutdown. Many of the lawmakers that splintered from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were among those engaged in bipartisan talks over the last several weeks.

Sure, many conservative pundits recently stated out loud that the shutdown would end this week after last Tuesday's elections. But I'll take it further in say that a wicked combo of SNAP benefits being cut and flights being cancelled around the country is what got some moderate Democrats to cave and vote to end the shutdown. Of course, the same Bluesky liberal hypocrites who blamed the GOP for 'taking food out of 42 million mouths' just a few days ago are now calling for Schumer's head on a platter for 'caving' and allowing the gov't to open back up, but hey that's politics for ya.

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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Release Full SNAP Benefits by Friday

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A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food aid program by Friday, rejecting the administration's effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans.

"People have gone without for too long," U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell said in court Thursday.

He scolded the Trump administration for failing to comply with the order he issued last week, which required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the SNAP benefits programs before its funds were slated to lapse on Nov. 1, marking the first time in the program's 60-year history that its payments were halted.

Good. Regardless of who's side you're on when it comes to who to blame for this record-breaking gov't shutdown we're still in, the 42 million people currently on SNAP shouldn't have to suffer because of it. And while one could make a sound argument that there needs to be changes to SNAP, that needs to be done through legislation and is a totally different matter, which conservatives who don't have to worry about where the next meal is coming from need to stop barking about.

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