FYI...UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE...

AND THE REST OF THE STORY, DIRECT FROM A ''GURU GOV, OFFICIAL"......WERE ORDERS UNDERSTOOD AND VERIFIED?......LOTS OF SCENARIOS TO THINK UPON....THE END RESULT...TRUMP WANTED THEM ALL DEAD, BECAUSE HE FEELS HE HAS UNLIMITED POWERS TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN....'KILL THEM ALL".....GUESS WHO WILL BE THROWN UNDER THE BUS?

Notice how The Left only cares about military crimes when Republicans are in office.

They participate in their monthly peace rallies when Trump and the Bushes are in office, but roll up their signs and placards when Democrat neoconservatives are President.

homeagain wrote: WTH...WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SNAPS PROGRAM, PS...WHAT DOES THE PREVIOUS POST HAVE TO DO WITH THAT TOPIC? DID IT CATCH U UNAWARE OF THE ACTUALLY FACTS OF THE PROGRAM?

Not a single thing, but, unlike the SNAPS discussion, it has relevance to the original topic of the thread, and it wasn't a response to you anyway. It was a response to Blazer Bob's post in which he stated he wasn't familiar with the history behind the sinking of the Bismarck.

What was laugh out loud funny about your SNAPS post was it contained a source that was specifically referencing loss of benefits due to the Schumer Shutdown, not the changes contained in the Big Beautiful Bill, which you, in your TDS fueled outrage, sought to establish as permanent cuts to the program despite all information to the contrary.

Eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse of the federal charity programs has to be a continuous priority for the charity programs to retain the confidence of the taxpayers who are funding the charity. It's like the fraud in Minnesota sending federal charity dollars home to Somalia to fund the chaos there, the whole program loses credibility when that happens, just as SNAPS does when the forced funders of the program (federal taxpayers) find out there are currently 185K plus dead individuals receiving SNAPS benefits. It's like finding out a child who killed their parents is still cashing their Social Security checks every month. There has to be some sort of continuous follow up on federal charity programs to ensure that waste, fraud, and abuse is being kept to the absolute minimum.

Like poverty itself, you are never going to eliminate 100% of the waste, fraud, and abuse, but you ought to be at least trying your best to reach that elusive goal rather than simply ignoring it exists at all. Having every SNAPS beneficiary reapply is a good first step in renewing faith in the program, for which collectivists should be thanking our president rather than seeking to use it as simply another opportunity to falsely proclaim he, and Republicans in general, are racist fascists. That review should be an annual exercise, you should have to reapply for the charity each and every year to ensure that only those for whom the program was created are benefitting from the charity.

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homeagain wrote: www.cato.org/commentary/about-1-5-kids-a...-failing-low-income#

ONE IN FIVE CHILDREN IS THE RATIO.....U R INCORRECT PS.

The current shutdown should serve as a catalyst for Congress to reassess the federal role in welfare. Children shouldn’t go hungry because Congress can’t govern—nor should they be dependent on the D.C. bureaucracy for their food. SNAP’s centralization and reliance on federal dollars have caused it to fail at meeting the nutritional needs of children, and now, millions of families face the prospect of sudden benefit disruptions.

Congress should stop treating Americans as collateral damage in their fight over extending Obamacare subsidies and end the shutdown immediately

That's laugh out loud funny HA . . . their losing their benefits, temporarily, had not a thing to do with funding for SNAPS overall, and everything to do with Democrats shutting down the government for a month to extend Covid engorged (un)Affordable Care Act subsidies indefinitely instead of allowing them to expire according to the original law, passed entirely by Democrats without even a single Republican vote.

Did you actually read the citation you provided? Did you miss this part?

The ongoing deadlock highlights SNAP’s fragility due to its near-total reliance on federal funding. More importantly, its chronic dependency on Washington’s one-size-fits-all solutions has left it failing the very children it’s supposed to help. The best way to ensure healthy outcomes for kids and protect them from the partisan crossfire of D.C. politicking is to break the federal grip on nutrition programs.

The only people losing access to SNAPS are single, able-bodied adults who refuse to find a job or volunteer their time to better their community and the illegal aliens who are, at least in theory, excluded from the program entirely but are the head of the household which is receiving benefits, which means that despite the Democratic lies, illegal aliens are beneficiaries of the program.

www.npr.org/2025/12/01/nx-s1-5608225/sna...changes-usda-rollins

The USDA has not presented data that backs up these statistics, which makes it hard to evaluate their significance.

For example, some deceased individuals will inevitably be enrolled in the program because state officials have to verify the death and provide time for the household to respond before SNAP benefits are reduced or terminated. Households that erroneously receive payments when someone is deceased must pay that money back.

As for people receiving two benefit payments, the specifics of the cases Rollins cited are still unknown, but in court filings a California state official listed a number of legitimate explanations for why that can occur — including when a SNAP household is owed a supplemental payment to correct an error.

It is also unclear what Rollins means when she says SNAP benefits increased 40% under the Biden administration. USDA did not respond to a question seeking clarification.

The department announced that SNAP payments would expand 40% due to the pandemic in April 2020 — during President Trump's first term.

Lauren Bauer, a fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and the associate director of The Hamilton Project, analyzed USDA data but was unable to find evidence of a 40% increase under Biden. Instead, she found that during Trump's presidency benefit costs increased by more than 30%, while during Biden's term they decreased by almost 17%.

"The dynamics of benefit increases and decreases is not really about presidencies. It's about the business cycle and where we are in terms of a recession and in terms of the climb out of it," Bauer said.

On Monday morning, Rollins posted to X, "At @POTUS' direction we will be reviewing ALL @USDA PROGRAMS to ensure only legal citizens are receiving benefits. Earlier this year, USDA put states on notice reminding them illegal immigrants and certain non-citizens CAN NOT receive SNAP benefits."

It is not clear what Rollins meant by "legal citizens." The post goes on to mention that 22 states have refused to turn over data and USDA's efforts to use "every tool to compel their compliance."

WHILE I BELIEVE IT IS AN IMPORTANT REVISION OF THE REGS...THE BULLSHIT BEING SPEWED OUT IS SO DAMN PARTISAN (LIKE THE DEATH RECIPIENTS) IT IS NAUSEATING TO SEE THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.....WITHHOLDING BENEFITS TO ALL CITIZENS,WHEN THERE REALLY IS NO CONCRETE PLAN IN PLACE TO ALLOW THIS TO MOVE FORWARD IN A PROFICIENT WAY IS UNCONSCIONABLE. THIS IS POLITICS,AT IT'S MOST EGREGIOUS STATUS.

DOUBLE PAYMENTS....YES, BECAUSE THEY WERE OWED THE BACK PAY,...NOT ONE R REALLY LOOKS AT THE ENTIRE PICTURE AND UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM.....IT'S TRUMP'S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL AND THAT'S THE WHOLE BALLGAME....GET BACK AT BIDEN.

PS...U SHOULD GO BACK AND RE READ THE POST...IT WAS INITIATED UNDER TRUMP'S FIRST TERM....SO WHO R WE REALLY PLACING THE BLAME ON?....TRUMP WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE PROGRAM, JUST LIKE BIDEN.....EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACTIONS......THIS IS NOT TDS..IT'S CALLING OUT THE FACTS....(what a concept ...facts that can be truthful,omg)

You're flat out living in lala land if you think benefits being withheld for everyone is due to anything other than the Schumer Shutdown. Yes, benefits to single adults with no dependents has been restricted, not ended, restricted, to 3 months over a 36 month period, but not even this group has had access to, or benefits from, the SNAPS program "entirely withheld" (your words, not mine).

Facts are important HA, but for some odd reason you seem to ignore them entirely in your quest to satiate your TDS. And yes, I'm sure that "some" of the 185K dead people who were previously receiving SNAPS benefits prior to the Schumer Shutdown were recently deceased . . . but your inclusion of this information is what, seeking to establish that all 185K of them, or a significant majority of those 185K people, had only recently passed? Is this what you're trying to tell us you believe, that all 185K dead people receiving SNAPS benefits prior to the Schumer Shutdown were recent decedents? You're really not that gullible, are you HA?

And what is a more efficient means of verifying the SNAPS enrollment than having every SNAPS beneficiary renew their application for the program? Those that know they are fraudulently enrolled won't risk their freedom to renew, the dead people can't renew, and every application can be vetted to ensure that the person seeking benefits is eligible. Will it eliminate all the waste, fraud, and abuse of the program? No, but if it eliminates even half of it the endeavor will have been worthwhile.

But to repeat . . . it is an absolute FICTION, not a fact, that this administration is engaged in "WITHHOLDING BENEFITS TO ALL CITIZENS" as you are serially alleging to be the case.

homeagain wrote: PS...U SHOULD GO BACK AND RE READ THE POST...IT WAS INITIATED UNDER TRUMP'S FIRST TERM....SO WHO R WE REALLY PLACING THE BLAME ON?....TRUMP WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE PROGRAM, JUST LIKE BIDEN.....EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACTIONS......THIS IS NOT TDS..IT'S CALLING OUT THE FACTS....(what a concept ...facts that can be truthful,omg)

t is also unclear what Rollins means when she says SNAP benefits increased 40% under the Biden administration. USDA did not respond to a question seeking clarification.

The department announced that SNAP payments would expand 40% due to the pandemic in April 2020 — during President Trump's first term.


U R DETERMINED TO SHOW THAT THE D'S R RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY FRIGGIN FIASCO...WHEN IF FACT, THE WHOLE OF ALL THE LEADER S OF THIS COUNTRY R,TO PUT IT KINDLY....NOT THE BRIGHTEST CRAYON IN THE BOX....I SEE NO ONE I ADMIRE AND THINK THEY HAVE THEIR SHIT TOGETHER.....COURAGE, IS SUCH AN OBSOLETE ACTION/WORD......AND THAT WORD IS WHAT HISTORY DEPENDS UPON FOR A COUNTRY TO SURVIVE AND FLOURISH.

Unfortunately we have too many turncoat Republican representatives and senators. At least five GOP senators voted to keep giving ACA subsidies to illegal aliens.