JD Vance Calls Feeding Starving Americans 'Absurd,' Funds Overseas Wars
According to The Hill , Senator J.D. Vance found a court order compelling full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) 'absurd.' This comes from the same senator who, according to campaign finance data on OpenSecrets.org, accepted $10,000 from the aerospace and defense industry in 2022, and voted 'yes' on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act which allocated over
$886 billion to the Pentagon. One might wonder: Is ensuring Americans don't starve truly 'absurd' compared to consistently funneling billions into the military-industrial complex, often to support conflicts far from our shores? While domestic programs face calls for austerity, the tap for defense spending, and foreign aid to certain allies, seems to flow freely—no court order needed. The
absurdity, it appears, is in whose suffering gets deemed fiscally irresponsible.