Trump Officials Seek Pause in Food Aid While Funding Fails
When it comes to feeding 42 million Americans, the Trump administration, according to Bloomberg, asked an appeals court to pause a judge's order. The excuse? A government shutdown, which allegedly leaves only enough money for partial payments. Funny how the federal coffers always seem to run dry for domestic needs, yet 'emergency' foreign aid packages, like the billions annually allocated to
Israel, never seem to hit this particular bureaucratic roadblock. (Funny, that.) This isn't an isolated incident. The pattern of prioritizing military aid over social safety nets is a bipartisan feature, not a bug, of US policy. While SNAP benefits face cuts and delays, the US continues to funnel over $3.8 billion annually in military aid to Israel, a commitment often locked in years in advance,
regardless of domestic fiscal crises or shutdowns. (OpenSecrets.org data consistently shows significant lobbying for such interests.) One might wonder, how many meals could $3.8 billion provide versus how many bombs?