The U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to avoid funding food stamps beyond the contingency fund limits.
The Friday ruling ensures that all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payouts are limited to contingency funding, a win for American taxpayers and the Trump administration amid the Democrats’ federal shutdown. Oddly enough, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson granted the emergency appeal.
After a judge ruled the administration had only until Friday to pay the full amount of normal SNAP benefits, the administration appealed. The Supreme Court stepped in to grant the appeal, WSB Radio reported.
After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.
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As interesting background information, the number one purchase using food stamps is soft drinks, while bag snacks are number four. Many of the more than 40 million SNAP recipients are just buying junk food with our money.
Nearly 42 million Americans are on SNAP, an unaffordable and unjustifiable burden on taxpayers, with only a little over a third of beneficiary households considered below the poverty line, per Just the News. There are hundreds of thousands of fraud incidents, and about 40% of SNAP recipients are obese.
As Salem Media news show host Larry Elder put it, “People need help. But no questions asked government provided welfare induces government incentivized sloth.”
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