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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.

Democrats @democrats.org · 9h

HAVE YOU VOTED YET? 🇺🇸

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 23h

If the Speaker feels this way, the appropriate response is to draft a bill and argue for it in Congress, where he works. If he wins over enough legislators, he can pass the bill into law. Instead, he has taken a 6 week vacation while the President has illegally shut down a program Congress created!

Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 23h

If the Speaker feels this way, the appropriate response is to draft a bill and argue for it in Congress, where he works. If he wins over enough legislators, he can pass the bill into law. Instead, he has taken a 6 week vacation while the President has illegally shut down a program Congress created!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 1d

SNAP is a little bit of an odd program — too flexible to really be “nutrition assistance” but much less flexible than cash — but it’s a vital boost to poor families’ living standards and there’s lots of evidence that its benefits far exceed the costs.

www.slowboring.com/p/trump-turn...

Trump turned off critical food assistance for millions

SNAP is good; killing it is bad.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is illegally withholding SNAP payments even though it has money — it has nothing to do with the shutdown.

“Just pass the CR then” misses the point. Once he’s decided to illegally withhold benefits even though there’s funding, he could do that when the government is open too.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 5d

SNAP needs $8 billion in November. The contingency fund has an estimated $5-6 billion in it. Not enough. But USDA has another $23 billion in transferable money in its School Meals account. I’d estimate SNAP could be funded for 3-4 months in this way. Depending on various burn rates.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 8d

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

If the President wants the government to reopen, he should sit down and negotiate with Democrats! He should not starve his own people!

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

There’s no reason to believe that the President would stop doing those things if Democrats voted with him!

Trump is starving the poorest people in our society because Democrats won’t let him repeal Obamacare. Why would they vote to fund a government so mired in bad faith?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

I think this is going to do the opposite. The Trump Administration is demonstrating for everyone to see that they desperately need to be reined in. The President is ignoring laws and hurting people.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

Anyway, the Trump Administration has the power to turn SNAP back on. They only turned it off because they hope it will demoralize Democrats and scare them into voting for their bill that functionally takes Americans’ healthcare away.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

They got away with doing this to foreigners. Now they are doing it to Americans.

It makes me wonder what else they are currently doing to “foreigners/migrants/illegals” that they hope to eventually do to Americans?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

In short, the Trump White House is illegally impounding funds that are supposed to be spent on Americans.

This is pretty similar to what they did with USAID. Congress mandated that the White House deliver aid to the poor. The White House refused. Millions went hungry.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

The Food and Nutrition Act, which governs SNAP, states “Assistance under this program SHALL be furnished to all eligible households who make application for such participation.”

It is illegal to deliberately withhold benefits from people that qualify for SNAP.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

Now the Trump Admin is claiming their hands are tied and that people have to go hungry. This simply isn’t true! They have the money to issue benefits. They are CHOOSING not to.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

And the Admin knows this! During their lapse preparations in September, they circulated a memo outlining how they would use the contingency fund to keep benefits flowing. A few days ago, that memo was mysteriously pulled from the website.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

Well, USDA has a SNAP contingency fund that is specifically designed to keep the program open during shutdowns. The Secretary of Agriculture also has broad transfer authority, allowing her to use other pools of money during an emergency. There is no reason for SNAP to shut down!

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

Because of the Government Shutdown SNAP has temporarily run out of money in its main account. The Trump Admin claims they now have to turn off benefits.

But that is untrue! One month ago, they were circulating a memo that said benefits would not be turned off. What’s up w/ that?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 8d

I know a thing or two about SNAP because President Biden appointed me to work in the office that oversees that program at USDA.

You should know that people are going to go hungry this month because the Trump White House deliberately chose to withhold their benefits.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

Surprised to learn that Zootopia 2 will boil down to fourteen scenes about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

Democrats have no plan to win the Senate. But I do! Check out my latest piece:

open.substack.com/pub/apalacef...

It’s Time for Blue Reagan

A New Old Platform for Blue Dog Democrats

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Apr 28

A few weeks ago, Gretchen Whitmer was in DC to share her vision for the future. I usually quite like the Governor, but I find her vision uncompelling.

Hop in kids - We’re going blogging!

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A Little Rusty

My Growing Qualms with Gretchen Whitmer

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