Tag: Trump’s shutdown

Nearly 42 Million Lose Food Stamps

Buck Banks

~42 million

“Millions of low-income Americans are losing access to food aid as the nation’s largest anti-hunger program goes dark for the first time,” Politico reports. “Congress failed to reopen the government before funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out Saturday. A federal judge, in an eleventh-hour decision, directed the Trump administration to use emergency funds to pay for food aid in November — but even that wasn’t enough to prevent the immediate lapse of benefits, which officials say could take weeks to resume.”

Tests With No Proctors

Buck Banks


To counter Russia and China, Trump wants to resume nuclear testing.
But Mr. President, sir, surely you must be jesting!
Those National Nuclear Security Administration furloughs
Means there’s almost no one left to handle the workload.
So the idea of nuke testing without NNSA oversight is most distressing.

Sanders: Will Republican Lawmakers Kiss ‘President Elon Musk’s’ Ring?

Buck Banks

“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it. Will Republicans kiss the ring?”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying any lawmaker supporting the newly unveiled end-of-the-year continuing resolution funding deal should be voted out of office, The Hill reports.