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Administration ordered to pay full SNAP benefits by Friday

Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:17 pm
Posted by bigjoe1
Member since Jan 2024
1393 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:17 pm
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November by Friday, rejecting the administration’s plan to partially fund that food stamp program for 42 million Americans.

“People have gone without for too long,” Judge Jack McConnell said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island as he issued the order.

The order came after plaintiffs in the case urged him to reject the administration’s proposed plan.
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Just don't see how he has this authority. You can't make someone spend money that isn't there.
Posted by HailToTheChiz
Back in Auburn
Member since Aug 2010
53263 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:19 pm to
quote:

Just don't see how he has this authority. You can't make someone spend money that isn't there.


If Congress is the one to tax and has the power of the purse then how can he do it unilaterally?

Unless he can just Executive order it from some fund?
Posted by DrrTiger
Gulf of America
Member since Nov 2023
2249 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:19 pm to
Strange. I don't recall seeing Jack McConnell on the ballot.
Posted by theOG
Member since Feb 2010
10738 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:20 pm to
Feelings decisions don’t count.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
79560 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:20 pm to
This judge is taking over the legislative and executive branches.
Posted by coolpapaboze
Parts Unknown
Member since Dec 2006
20133 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:20 pm to
So the judicial branch is ordering the executive branch to perform a legislative branch function? Ok.
Posted by Don Quixote
Member since May 2023
3928 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:21 pm to
or what "judge" ?
Posted by TDTOM
Member since Jan 2021
24161 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:21 pm to
Hey Judge.













Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
57604 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:22 pm to
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Just don't see how he has this authority.


That's been the running theme of lower court rulings on anything dealing with Trump administration decisions.
Posted by Warboo
Enterprise Alabama
Member since Sep 2018
5343 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:22 pm to
I would literally tell the judge to eat shat to his face.
Posted by Zgeo
Baja Oklahoma
Member since Jul 2021
2917 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:23 pm to
Judge has no authority to order payments has to be Congress…right?…
Posted by sabanisarustedspoke
Member since Jan 2007
5534 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:24 pm to
Yea, cause he said so... I love how people are UP in arms about Non-working people getting free benefits in a government shutdown. Nevermind, the people actually working not getting paid, nevermind the people defending you not getting paid, no its the parasites we are worried about. And they are the supposed Socialists? Don't they know that in a socialist society they wouldn't be lacking benefits, they will be shot?
Posted by HEtiger
Member since May 2008
1488 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:25 pm to
Can the judge just open the federal government and be done?
Posted by antibarner
Member since Oct 2009
25860 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:27 pm to
What statute gives him this authority?
Posted by TDTOM
Member since Jan 2021
24161 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:27 pm to
quote:

Can the judge just open the federal government and be done?


. I like that.
Posted by WeeWee
Member since Aug 2012
43708 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:41 pm to
How can this idiot judge not realize that you cannot use a $6 billion contingency fund to pay $8 billion in benefits. The math just doesn't work.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
111817 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:42 pm to
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Just don't see how he has this authority. You can't make someone spend money that isn't there.


He doesn't.

And now that the elections are over, Trump can appeal.
This post was edited on 11/6/25 at 3:43 pm
Posted by IvoryBillMatt
Member since Mar 2020
7150 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:46 pm to
Just from the article, the Judge was speaking like a politician, not a neutral decider of the law.
Posted by Nonetheless
MAGA
Member since Jan 2012
34209 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:52 pm to
"I've seen the Courts ruling. Now let me see them enforce it."
Posted by LSUSkip
Central, LA
Member since Jul 2012
24717 posts
Posted on 11/6/25 at 3:56 pm to
They do this on purpose. They're trying to set a precedent where the president doesn't act on what the court orders him to so when Democrats are in charge, they won't comply with a judge's order and say remember that time Trump didn't?

It's broken, it's all broken, and that's what Democrats want.
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