Rather Than Give People Food Security, Trump Cruelly Asks the Appeal Courts for Permission to Starve Vulnerable Americans

The Courts, like the American People have had it with Donald Trumps Project 2025 cruelty and bull fecal matter.

In an updated order to his ruling from a week ago, Rhode Island U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell told the Trump Government to fully fund the food assistance SNAP program, calling the American Duce Wannabe’s cruelty toward the nation’s most vulnerable, based on earlier public remarks that he would not pay into SNAP until the Democrats provided the votes to end his government shutdown “political.”

Judge McConnell ruling from the bench, said according to reporting from The New York Times:

“This should never happen in America…“Faced with a choice between advancing relief and entrenching delay, it chose the latter — an outcome that predictably magnifies harm and undermines the very purpose of the program it administers.”

In reporting from NBC, McConnell chastised Trump Project 2025 Regime lawyers for doing “nothing to ensure” that SNAP benefits would be delivered this week” and “The evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened and needless suffering will occur. 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.”

While the Trump people at the Department of Agriculture who oversee SNAP have said that they are working to fully fund the SNAP program, the Injustice Department is appealing McConnell’s order in the Appeals First Circuit Division.

Think about that.

Rather than feverishly work to ensure no one loses their SNAP benefits and goes hungry, the Project 2025 gang in Trumpville are trying to get the Appeal Courts to give them permission to starve vulnerable Americans.

Remember this is the same Donald Trump who rather than negotiate with Democrats to end the government shutdown, is willing to allow people’s health insurance rates on the Obamacare Marketplace to skyrocket.

Instead of doing what is best for the country, he is content to let federal workers like air traffic controllers go weeks without pay and flights across the country to be cancelled rather than lead and meet with Congressional leaders to fund government operations.

This is the same Trump Banana Republic Government that would rather give $40 billion to help Argentina’s economy rather than Americans.

This is the same Trump who would rather throw Great Gatsby vintage parties at Mara Largo with the filthy rich MAGA donors than feed the nation’s most vulnerable.

It actually says something that it takes a court order to force an American President to feed the very people he swore an oath to protect.

Speaking on the KTAR News Show Outspoken with Bruce and Gaydos, a visibly irate and pissed off Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vented her frustration with Donald Trump’s cruelty towards the 900,000 Arizonans, including close to 400,000 children on SNAP, saying:

“I am furious about this decision by the Trump Administration. At this point, they’re just being cruel. The thing is that they have these funds. They have access to these funds. These funds have been used before during the government shutdown to make sure that people got their SNAP benefits and they didn’t go hungry, and he could have released these funds a long time ago at the beginning of the shutdown…He didn’t do that. He only was going to release the funds because a court told him he had to… Meanwhile, people who are hungry because they don’t have money for groceries and we’re supposed to get their benefits on November 1st still don’t have them. It is infuriating… He didn’t need Congress to fix this. He doesn’t need the government to reopen. He can fix it, and he refuses to, and he’s making it worse and harder for people. And here’s the thing, if the state had the money to fund this, we would…we’re doing everything we can to mitigate. We released some funding last week to help support food banks, which have already been stretched, and they’re being stretched more. We established a temporary double up program and funded vouchers for that, so people could get a little bit of extra cash to get, and it goes double for fresh fruits and vegetables and things, but we don’t have enough money to provide the full benefit. And I mean, the states not equipped to backfill all of these bad decisions coming out of Washington.”

When asked about tapping into the State’s rainy day fund or declaring an emergency, a frustrated Governor Hobbs said that while “all options are on the table” for her, Republican leadership in the legislature would also have to approve the release of the monies, noting that “So far, the Republicans have have just said no.”

Commenting on Trump wanting to appeal rather than feed vulnerable Americans, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who helped spearhead the lawsuit that the courts used to compel the Project 2025 regime to fund SNAP last week, wrote:

“The Trump administration should stop holding 900,000 Arizonan’s food benefits hostage during the month of Thanksgiving.”

Arizona Democratic House Leader Oscar De Los Santos posted about Trump asking the courts permission to starve people:

“BETRAYAL: Trump ran on lowering the price of food. Now he’s willfully taking food out of the mouths of children, seniors, and veterans. He doesn’t give a crap about the working class.”

Earlier this afternoon, after receiving guidance from the Department of Agriculture and no ruling on Trumps appeal to let him starve people, Governor Hobbs issued a statement that the Arizona Department of Economic Security has released the full November funding for SNAP recipients.

In her announcement, the Governor wrote:

“It is shameful that the Trump administration delayed lifesaving food assistance payments to Arizonans for weeks. The chaos and confusion created by the administration sent over 800,000 Arizonans and their families scrambling to figure out where their next meal was coming from. No Arizonan should be forced to go without food on their table because they’re being used by Washington, DC politicians as leverage in their negotiations.

“It shouldn’t take a court order for politicians in Washington, DC to do the right thing for Arizona families, but I am glad that this much needed relief will be delivered to Arizonans and I look forward to USDA quickly releasing these critical funds. I’m also thankful for the public servants at the Department of Economic Security who have been working tirelessly to cut through the chaos of the federal government and ensure our families see their SNAP benefits paid in full. Now, it’s time for President Trump to learn a lesson from what I’ve done in Arizona: reach across the aisle, negotiate a deal, and pass a budget that lowers costs, invests in working people, and protects the critical services that the people of Arizona rely on. It’s about time we end the chaos in Washington, DC and focus on delivering for the American people.”

Thank God, people will get their SNAP benefits for Thanksgiving.

Should Arizonans and the American People still have to worry about Christmas and Hanukah?

On the government shutdown, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer offered to back reopening the government in exchange for a one year extension of the Biden/Harris Affordable Care Act Tax Subsidies.

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, citing the dire health care situations of two Arizonans, echoed Schumer’s ideas on the Senate floor, saying:

“So, let’s just lay it out here. We need to extend government funding to reopen the government, but we also need to extend these tax credits so millions of Americans can actually afford their health care. So, let’s do both. No gimmicks, no changes. Let’s reopen the government. But we can do that knowing that Jessica and Leslie and a whole bunch of other people that we represent can take their kid to a doctor and fill their prescriptions for another year. There is no reason why we can’t agree on this. If you want to reopen the government and you want to help keep health insurance premiums from spiking, then let’s do it.”

Senate Republican Leader John Thune called Schumer’s proposal a “Non starter.”

These stupid morons are really all about the cruelty they can inflict on the American People, even when it is their own constituents.

And they wonder why they got their asses kicked across the country in last Tuesday’s elections.