Court blocking Trump cruelty

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., moved Sunday to end the Trump administration's changes to the federal food stamps program that would have likely ended the benefits for tens of thousands of Americans.Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Department of Agriculture had not adequately addressed how its decision to remove the ability of cities to waive work requirements for the program in economically-distressed areas would affect states around the country.

The administration's rule ending that discretionary power "abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans," wrote Howell, according to the Post.

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Trump administration officials have "been icily silent about how many [adults] would have been denied SNAP benefits had the changes sought...been in effect while the [coronavirus] pandemic rapidly spread across the country," Howell wrote.

  The Hill

The cruelty is baked in. And I guess the Trump administration will appeal to the Supreme Court.

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