The Trump administration is telling states not to pay full November food stamp benefits, revising its previous guidance after winning a temporary victory at the Supreme Court on Friday.
USDA’s latest memo, sent Saturday to state directors of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, instructed states to deliver just 65 percent of benefits during the government shutdown and required those who already sent full payments to claw back that money.
“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized. Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025,” the memo notes.
They can just do that anyway.
I think it’s more fundamental - they hate the poor and want them to starve. Any higher strategic value is secondary to the suffering. They just want hunger and death.
They are Nazis, and Nazis think that only a select few people deserve to live. Most people they see as a burden on the human race, holding it back from its full potential. They also see caring for others as a weakness that holds humanity back (conveniently enough for them). This usually goes along with some shitty self-justifying bastardization of evolutionary theory and eugenics.
You know what’s really holding back human potential? Needlessly starving people. There are probably thousands or millions of people who could be achieving great things if they weren’t struggling to make ends meet. If we had universal basic income and people didn’t have to worry so much about finding any job that will keep them from starving, people would be in a better position to go after jobs they really want and achieve their goals.