Trump’s administration is demanding states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings, marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans.
The demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came as more than two dozen states warned of “catastrophic operational disruptions” if the Trump administration does not reimburse them for those SNAP benefits they authorized before the Supreme Court’s stay.
At least on the most basic of levels these are the same thing more or less. You don’t get people starving without a fucked up economy and that usually has further knock on affects, problem is the rich have directly conflated their own wealth with the economy for so long that some people act like they’re the same thing when they aren’t. I could wipe out Walmart tomorrow and while it’d suck in a lot of areas it wouldn’t immediately implode the economy if you did the same to every small business in say Redlands California itd probably shitcan a solid percentage of the San Bernardinos county economy.