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What about the 5 billion dollar contingency fund that is supposed to cover things such as a government shutdown?
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/snaps-contingency-reserve-is-available-for-regular-snap-benefits-as-usda
Republicans are cowards and are intentionally choosing to hurt those that actually need assistance.
My conspiracy theory, and I'm uneducated in these matters, is that they've done something with that emergency fund. Since the money isn't there anymore they're caught between admitting they misapropriated/stole it or starving people.
Or they want people to starve to incite the riots that allows them to apply more military pressure. I hate that that's a sentence I said with so sense of irony
Yep, this is my belief. Trump has been looking for a reason to enact martial law. He's been making up excuses to extend his enforcement groups throughout the US, and large protests/riots would give them the opportunity.
This isn't to say they shouldn't be done. I'd argue they should. That's their plan, and their hand should be forced if that's the way it's going to go. If it doesn't happen over this, it'll be something else, and the imagery of them clamping down on starving people is about the best we could hope for. There is just about no one who doesn't at least see their plight. It'd be the best rallying cry for all Americans, and potentially to outsiders who would help as well.