• foggy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    He had every opportunity to use tarriff funds to cover snap and make tariffs look moderately not horrible.

    But nope. Grinch is gonna Grinch.

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      3 days ago

      Doesn’t even need to do that. Congress set aside 5 billion to cover snap just for this scenario. The money is already authorized and the checks are ready to be signed.

      • Auli@lemmy.ca
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        3 days ago

        You mean the 5 billion that well mysteriously disappear.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      I keep worrying that he’s going to use authoritarianism and a violation of the rule of law to do good things and people will normalize those things as ok, but he seems devoted to never helping anyone who isn’t rich or armed.