Hope the Gatsby administration has recovered from their Friday night bash at Mar-A-Lago! They have a noon deadline today to update at least two federal judges who ruled late last week that the Agriculture Department had to disburse Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds. Via NBC News:
The deadline comes as tens of millions of Americans continue to go without their November SNAP benefits due to the shutdown, which is just days away from becoming the longest in U.S. history.
Across the country, the shutdown’s impact was visible in long lines at food banks. This weekend in Texas and California, stadium parking lots were converted into mass distribution sites where families picked up boxes of produce, frozen meat and other household staples.
In the days before the November SNAP funding was expected to run dry, many state governments tried to help fill the gap. Last week, Democratic leaders from 25 states also sued the Agriculture Department, trying to force the department to use contingency funds to keep the program operating as the shutdown continues.
I can't help picturing this stooge chuckling to himself, saying, "You and what army?"
In the meantime, organizations, churches, restaurants and neighbors have geared up across the country to feed Americans with scales small to massive with everything from grocery boxes to feed families for a week, to free pizzas for dinner. Remember, there are more compassionate people out there than you think.
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Not a bad idea for those of us who can afford it to make a donation to Feeding America, which distributes funds everywhere.
