(11-01-2025 08:26 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 06:24 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 12:25 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(10-31-2025 07:12 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(10-31-2025 07:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  WTH is wrong with building a ballroom with private donor money? You think that should be redirected to SNAP? Good grief.

And did you miss Trump's post that he's trying to get SNAP funds authorized?

I PERSONALLY have no issues at all with the ballroom, I am talking about optics... and if you deny the optics are bad then you are lying to yourself. Same as Argentina (sorry said Venezuela). I do have some problems with giving 40 bil, same as I had issues with funding Ukraine or most other countries during this time, but I am not completely against it. The optics are terrible though, just gives ammunition to democrats.

Yu actually think they just rolled up the equipment, supplies and labor in the last 29 days or something?

The construction of a much needed ballroom or whatever space you want to call it has easily been months or years in the planning.

He offered to pay for it back in the hero zerO admin and was obviously turned down.
Having Melania, Xi or Starmers wife go drop the duece in a porta-potty on the sideline is pretty damn low-rent even for a Tennessean.

The rest is just predictable yammering by the same yammerers that have been yammering for a decade by now.

May be time to give it a rest. If only for a brief respite.

Jeez you TRUMPOIDS are incredible. No wonder you are considered the dumbest of the two parties...

I cant hear you over the sound of the trucking industry not being shut down.......

Snicker

Or the Trump Slump

https://csnbbs.com/thread-1007738.html

(11-02-2025 12:26 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 08:26 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 06:24 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 12:25 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(10-31-2025 07:12 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  I PERSONALLY have no issues at all with the ballroom, I am talking about optics... and if you deny the optics are bad then you are lying to yourself. Same as Argentina (sorry said Venezuela). I do have some problems with giving 40 bil, same as I had issues with funding Ukraine or most other countries during this time, but I am not completely against it. The optics are terrible though, just gives ammunition to democrats.

Yu actually think they just rolled up the equipment, supplies and labor in the last 29 days or something?

The construction of a much needed ballroom or whatever space you want to call it has easily been months or years in the planning.

He offered to pay for it back in the hero zerO admin and was obviously turned down.
Having Melania, Xi or Starmers wife go drop the duece in a porta-potty on the sideline is pretty damn low-rent even for a Tennessean.

The rest is just predictable yammering by the same yammerers that have been yammering for a decade by now.

May be time to give it a rest. If only for a brief respite.

Jeez you TRUMPOIDS are incredible. No wonder you are considered the dumbest of the two parties...

I cant hear you over the sound of the trucking industry not being shut down.......

Snicker

Or the Trump Slump

https://csnbbs.com/thread-1007738.html

poor elvis

Elvis has been having a bad few days lately.

(11-01-2025 08:24 PM)TripleA Wrote:  The timing and optics could not have been worse for whom? The wackos with terminal TDS? Try polling anybody but hard core lefties, and I bet you find nobody gives a flip.

Really. It’s the latest talking point for the stupid easily manipulated leftists.

(11-02-2025 01:38 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Elvis has been having a bad few days lately.

Well his IQ is somewhere below 60 so….

(11-01-2025 06:24 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(11-01-2025 12:25 AM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(10-31-2025 07:12 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  

(10-31-2025 07:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  WTH is wrong with building a ballroom with private donor money? You think that should be redirected to SNAP? Good grief.

And did you miss Trump's post that he's trying to get SNAP funds authorized?

I PERSONALLY have no issues at all with the ballroom, I am talking about optics... and if you deny the optics are bad then you are lying to yourself. Same as Argentina (sorry said Venezuela). I do have some problems with giving 40 bil, same as I had issues with funding Ukraine or most other countries during this time, but I am not completely against it. The optics are terrible though, just gives ammunition to democrats.

Yu actually think they just rolled up the equipment, supplies and labor in the last 29 days or something?

The construction of a much needed ballroom or whatever space you want to call it has easily been months or years in the planning.

He offered to pay for it back in the hero zerO admin and was obviously turned down.
Having Melania, Xi or Starmers wife go drop the duece in a porta-potty on the sideline is pretty damn low-rent even for a Tennessean.

The rest is just predictable yammering by the same yammerers that have been yammering for a decade by now.

May be time to give it a rest. If only for a brief respite.

Jeez you TRUMPOIDS are incredible. No wonder you are considered the dumbest of the two parties...


NO, I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR A LONG TIME and there are contracts and start-up and completion dates... You morons want to "win an argument" so bad that you are gaslighting.


Once again, I am saying the timing and optics could not have been worse... but I know you cultists have your heads shoved so far up Donny's ass that you cannot even admit that. DEAR LEADER can do no wrong ever....

Sorry comrade, but this ain’t it. Rant all you want. It will be beautiful and grand when it’s done and the next democrat president (if there is one) will use it as if it were his own creation. Probably take credit for it. And you simpletons will brag about how great it is.

I have said over and over and over I SUPPORT THE BALLROOM but you idiots just keep using that over and over... Ya'll are seriously worse than liberals.

(11-02-2025 04:45 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  I have said over and over and over I SUPPORT THE BALLROOM but you idiots just keep using that over and over... Ya'll are seriously worse than liberals.

I support it as well. I don't understand why the most powerful man in the supposed 'free world' can't modernize the place he calls his home for four years.

Oh wait, I know why. It's because it's Donald Trump.

(11-02-2025 04:45 PM)memtigbb Wrote:  I have said over and over and over I SUPPORT THE BALLROOM but you idiots just keep using that over and over... Ya'll are seriously worse than liberals.

And nobody cares about the ballroom. Its just a DNC talking point that nobody but those with TDS pays attention to.

I was watching one of Schumer's pressers on Thursday and he said this - it is an exact quote.

"Shutting down Snap will cause 51,000 deaths in the next year."



For starters, that is a very specific number - I would like to see the math on that.

Second, if there are as many people on SNAP as is stated, that is a very SMALL number if people will actually starve - no?

(11-03-2025 09:19 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  I was watching one of Schumer's pressers on Thursday and he said this - it is an exact quote.

"Shutting down Snap will cause 51,000 deaths in the next year."



For starters, that is a very specific number - I would like to see the math on that.

Second, if there are as many people on SNAP as is stated, that is a very SMALL number if people will actually starve - no?

Well he knows most of the people that actually listen to him are morons, so....

Went to two casinos yesterday and both were at about half the occupancy as typical. The "SNAP recipients" must be using their slot money for actually buying food instead.

(10-31-2025 03:03 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  Imperial Judiciary: Judges in 2 Separate Cases Order Trump Admin. to Use SNAP Contingency Funds

Quote:Federal judges, in two separate cases on Friday, ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funds to issue SNAP benefits as the benefits are set to run out on Saturday, given the lapse in appropriations.

We're one month into the Schumer Shutdown, and SNAP benefits (food stamps) have become the political football du jour.

There's a super-easy fix to this, of course: The Democrats could quit worrying so much about "leverage," and just vote to reopen the government. Instead, they decided to, yet again, run to court over it. On Tuesday, 25 states plus the District of Columbia filed suit in (where else?) Massachusetts, asserting, "on information and belief," that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) "has funds available to it that are sufficient to fund all, or at least a substantial portion, of November SNAP benefits." The states essentially asked the court to rule that the USDA can't suspend SNAP benefits despite the lapse in appropriations and order the USDA to pay benefits out of its contingency reserve.

The case was randomly (cough) assigned to Judge Indira Talwani — she of "Congress can't defund Planned Parenthood" fame — and a hearing was set for Thursday morning on the plaintiff states' motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO).

The parties presented their respective arguments at the hearing, and Judge Talwani took the matter under advisement.

The crux of USDA's position is set forth in the introduction to its memorandum in opposition to the plaintiffs' motion for a TRO. The introduction runs for about two-and-a-half pages, so I will include an excerpt, rather than pasting it in its entirety here, but it's worth the read:

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”) is a critical program that, through regular allotments and extraordinary disaster disbursements (the “D-SNAP program”), helps to improve food security for millions of Americans. At its regular level, SNAP requires approximately $8.5 to 9 billion dollars each month. Unfortunately, the ongoing lapse in appropriations has left SNAP with no appropriated funds in its annual allotments account. As a consequence of this never-before-seen circumstance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) was forced to suspend upcoming November benefits.

In their proposed order, Plaintiffs appear to ask the Court to order USDA to unsuspend allotments and let the system run with full benefits amounts (i.e., deposit full amounts on beneficiaries’ SNAP cards) no matter the absence of funds for such benefits. But that is no option at all. That would be a blatant violation of the Antideficiency Act, a criminal statute that forbids the United States from making such an obligation without an appropriation.

In their brief, Plaintiffs argue that the Court should force USDA to deplete its long-term emergency fund, currently containing around $5.25 billion, to provide SNAP benefits for November. But Congress has not appropriated any SNAP funding for fiscal year 2026. And depletion of the long-term emergency fund would eliminate money for the D-SNAP program over the coming years, a program that provides critical support in the event of natural disasters and other uncontrollable catastrophes. Even assuming USDA had discretion to reallocate these funds, the question of how to allocate limited funds among multiple crucial safety-net programs, when there are insufficient funds, is one that the agency is empowered to make—not a federal court, and certainly not Plaintiffs.

...

All told, Defendants understand that the lack of SNAP funds has created a difficult situation for millions of Americans. But as a matter of both law and practical consequence, it is not a problem that this Court can solve through the remedy that Plaintiffs here seek.

On Friday, Talwani issued a memorandum and order that keeps the motion for TRO under advisement but nevertheless compels the Trump administration to jump through certain hoops:

No later than Monday, November 3, 2025, Defendants shall advise the court whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November and, if so, their timeline for determining whether to authorize only reduced SNAP benefits using the Contingency Funds or to authorize full SNAP benefits using both the Contingency Funds and additional available funds.

According to Talwani's reading of things, the fact that Congress, in the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program “to remain available through September 30, 2026” and “be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations,” the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve. In her view, "the statutory scheme does not contemplate an outright suspension of the program while some funds are available."

Meanwhile, in Rhode Island, District Court Judge John McConnell Jr. issued his own ruling Friday afternoon in a similar case filed by cities and nonprofits.

In Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell ruled from the bench in a case filed by cities and nonprofits that the program must be funded using at least the contingency funds, and he asked for an update on progress by Monday.

Along with ordering the federal government to use emergency reserves to backfill SNAP benefits, McConnell ruled that all previous work requirement waivers must continue to be honored. The USDA during the shutdown has terminated existing waivers that exempted work requirements for older adults, veterans and others.

As of this writing, the administration has not filed an appeal in either case nor issued a statement, but RedState will continue to follow these cases and report on any developments as warranted.

Quote:BREAKING: Rhode Island U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. (Obama appointed) has ordered the Trump administration to come up with the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November by tomorrow.

“The defendants failed to consider the practical consequences associated with this decision to only partially fund SNAP,”McConnell said.

“They knew that there would be a long delay in paying partial Snap payments and failed to consider the harms individual who rely on those benefits would suffer.”

So basically the judge is ignoring the law. Just making up rules because he doesnt like the results.

Obama Judge Scolds DOJ Lawyers, Orders Trump Admin to Fully Fund SNAP Benefits by Tomorrow – Trump Appeals!

Quote:A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump Administration to fully fund SNAP benefits by Friday.

US District Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee, scolded DOJ lawyers on Thursday during a hearing and ordered the Trump Administration to fully deliver the SNAP benefits to states by Friday.

“The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur,” Judge McConnell said to the DOJ lawyer. “Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s history. This is a problem that could have and should have been avoided.”

Today is day 37 of the Schumer Shutdown, and a court showdown unfolded as the funds for food stamp benefits were set to begin drying up on November 1.

More than 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits, and the $5 billion emergency fund was not enough to cover the program for November.

Unions and nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture last week ahead of the November 1 cutoff.

Last Friday, Judge McConnell ordered Trump to use the emergency funds for the SNAP program; at the same time, a separate Obama-appointed judge ruled the USDA has the power to fund SNAP benefits.

President Trump was then prompted to ask the court to clarify the ruling.

The Trump Administration vowed to partially cover SNAP benefits, but Judge McConnell ordered the government to fully fund SNAP by tomorrow.

The judge ordered the Trump Admin to take funding for child nutrition programs and redirect it to the overwhelmingly lazy SNAP recipients.

Excerpt from NBC News:

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the Trump administration to deliver SNAP payments in full to states by Friday.

The order, which U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued Thursday afternoon, followed two weeks of chaos and confusion about the fate of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, during the government shutdown.

At a hearing Thursday, the Trump administration said it had complied with the judge’s order and argued that the reason people have not received their SNAP benefits is that states have not distributed them. Tyler Becker, counsel to the assistant attorney general, said the partial benefits were released to states on Monday, adding that “this is a state problem.”

But McConnell said the Trump administration “did nothing to ensure” that SNAP benefits would be delivered this week. He ordered the administration to use the funding for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, in addition to the contingency funds to make sure payments are delivered in full.

Update: The Trump Administration appealed the judge’s order.

A Leftist judge covering for his Democrat Senator brethren. "Find the Money". Really? Trump should call the judge on speaker phone with a camera rolling.

SHOWDOWN: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene After Appeals Court Denies Admin’s Request to Block SNAP Funding Order by Lawless Judge

Quote:A federal appeals court on Friday evening denied Trump’s request to block an Obama judge’s ruling forcing his administration to fund the SNAP program amid the Schumer Shutdown.

The First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge John McConnell’s order forcing the Trump Administration to fully deliver the SNAP benefits to states on Friday.

“The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur,” Judge McConnell said to the DOJ lawyer on Thursday. “Last weekend, SNAP benefits lapsed for the first time in our nation’s history. This is a problem that could have and should have been avoided.”

More than 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits, and the $5 billion emergency fund was not enough to cover the program for November.

The judge ordered the Trump Admin to take funding for child nutrition programs and redirect it to the overwhelmingly lazy SNAP recipients.

A small percent of Americans actually need SNAP benefits to help them along but millions are now abusing the system.

The Trump DOJ immediately appealed the Fist Circuit Court’s decision to the Supreme Court.

DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer asked for the Supreme Court to respond by 9:30 pm ET Friday night.

Fox News reported:

A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration request to temporarily block a lower court ruling requiring the government to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program amid the government shutdown.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ruling comes as the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said it is working to comply with a judge’s order to fully fund the program for November.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell rejected the administration’s effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans for November as the shutdown drags on, giving the government 24 hours to comply.

In a letter sent to all regional directors of the SNAP program, Patrick Penn, deputy under secretary for USDA’s Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, said, “FNS is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court of Rhode Island.”

After the appeals court ruling, the Trump administration filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping it will step in by 9:30 p.m. ET Friday evening.

BREAKING: Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Obama Judge’s Order Requiring Trump Admin to Fund SNAP Benefits

Quote:The US Supreme Court on Friday evening temporarily halted a lower court’s order requiring the Trump Administration to fund SNAP benefits for November.

On Thursday, Judge John McConnell, a Rhode Island-based district court judge, ordered the Trump Administration to fund SNAP benefits amid the Schumer Shutdown.

On Friday evening, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge John McConnell’s order forcing the Trump Administration to fully deliver the SNAP benefits to states by midnight tonight.

DOJ Solicitor John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to respond by 9:30 pm ET tonight.

Late Friday evening Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily halted Judge McConnell’s order requiring Trump to fund SNAP benefits in full.

Justice Jackson stayed the judge’s order to allow the First Circuit Court of Appeals to review the ruling.

“This administrative stay will terminate forty-eight hours after the First Circuit’s resolution of the pending motion, which the First Circuit is expected to issue with dispatch,” Justice Jackson wrote.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the win.

“The Supreme Court just granted our administrative stay in this case,” Bondi said.

“Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda,” she added.