The cruelty is the point

Marie Antoinette Trump.

SNAP requires non-disabled adults without dependents to prove that they have worked at least 80 hours a month for more than three months to receive aid. States have the option to waive that requirement for areas with high unemployment rates, though the proposed change from the Trump administration would do away with that option, even as states begin seeing record rates of enrollment amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A coalition of 14 states and two major cities, as well as the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, had sued the Trump administration over its rule in January. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, ruled in March that the changes could not take effect, citing the coronavirus pandemic’s unique economic circumstances.

The USDA, which had been expected to appeal the ruling, did so Tuesday.

  The Hill

It's a crying shame that we now have to note who appointed the judge. There is no justice. Only politics.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.