In an accelerated time frame, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, along with the AGs and leaders of 25 other states, won a restraining order stopping the “Let Them Starve” Trump Project 2025 fascist Agriculture Department from enforcing their “claw back” SNAP funds for millions of vulnerable Americans, including children, from states that had already authorized and processed the payments.
Please click here to see the complaint filed with the court. By Judge Indira Talwani in the United States District Court of Massachusetts issued the restraining order.
There should be no doubt that whoever Republicans nominate to be their pick for State Attorney General, that person will in no way be the champion for the people that Ms. Mayes has demonstrated time and again.
In a press release hailing the temporary restraining order, Mayes wrote:
“In processing full SNAP benefits for November, Arizona was following USDA’s own guidance as well as a court. The Trump administration’s cruel and chaotic attempt to undo its earlier guidance continues to confuse and harm families who need access to their SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families. We will keep fighting in court to ensure Arizonans have access to food.”
Bait and switch
On Sunday, the AG had expressed outrage in a comment to Blog for Arizona for the Project 2025 regime’s bait and switch actions, stating:
“We are not going to let the Trump administration bully Arizonans or use them as political pawns. People’s lives are not a game. Donald Trump should fully fund SNAP so children and families don’t go hungry. We will keep fighting to ensure Arizonans who rely on SNAP can access their benefits.”
In more potential good news, the First Circuit Court of Appeals released their opinion denying the “Let Them Starve” Trump Project 2025 billionaires first and everyone else could go to hell fascist regime, telling them again they have to fully fund the SNAP program.
That means the Administrative Stay granted inexplicably by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will expire in the next 48 hours.
Furthermore, despite the justified criticism leveled at it, the Shutdown deal between Senate Republicans and the eight retiring or not up for re-election this cycle Democrats should, if, and given the track record, that is probably a big if, of Trump and his cruel Project 2025 band of screw the people advisors, stabilize funding of the food stamp-SNAP program for the next ten months if the Agriculture Bill passes both the Senate and House.
Stay Tuned.
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