Will Democrats cave before SNAP/EBT/Section 8 funds run out?
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Jake Starkey
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Johnson and Thune agree to the SNAP funding as is, and the government can open.
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Speaker Johnson has the unilateral authority to reconvene the House immediately and force a vote on a "clean" continuing resolution (CR)—a simple bill to fund the government at current levels without partisan add-ons, but such a measure already passed the House on September 19, which you already know - or should have.
If House Democrats had the votes to stop passage of H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, they could have. But they didn't.
Jake Starkey
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Johnson should call the House into session. He will have to swear in Grijalva and then conduct business.
T. A. Gardner
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No 30 million lives weren't.The rest was horse shit by T. A. Thirty million lives were positively helped, despite conservative, TP, and coming MAGA hatred.
Yay for the good guys, and piss on MAGA, the bad guys.
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Jake Starkey
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Promarket and Manhattan Institute are yap dogs for the wealthy.
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Johnson has nothing to do with it.
The bill already passed by the House in September included funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at its existing FY 2025 levels (AS IS)
It extended all discretionary spending programs under the Department of Agriculture (which administers SNAP) without changes or additional policy riders.
Specifically, it would have ensured SNAP benefits for approximately 42-43 million Americans continued without interruption during that period, assuming Senate passage and presidential approval.
The problem is Schumer's caucus, not the House or the existing CR.
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Democrats in Maryland are also getting ready to bail on the Party's criminal campaign. The state has a lot of govt. employees living there, and they're feeling the pressure.
In 2024, Maryland's workforce totaled 2,764,497 people. Of these, some 530,257 workers, or 19.2%, were employed by federal, State and local governments in the public sector. Currently, Maryland is ranked third in the nation for its number of federal employees and is heavily reliant on the federal government for economic growth. In June 2025, Maryland saw the largest single-month decrease in federal government jobs in almost three decades when 3,500 positions were cut. The job losses are expected to continue as the downsizing of the federal government takes place.
Note that a lot of state and local govt. jobs also depend on Federal funding, like SNAP, MEdicaid, roads, etc.
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T. A. Gardner
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Johnson doesn't control the Senate. And yes, $1.5 trillion will be a major economic debacle for the US
Doing so would see inflation and the CPI rise like it did in Biden's first two years in office when he borrowed and spent similar sums.
Why do you still beat your children? (idiot complex question fallacy on your part with sarcasm on my part--and yes, I have to explain that to you or you wouldn't get it)
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Ever notice?
The minute a leftist is asked if they are willing to house illegals in the own home, they make excuses.
What's the relevance here?
I believe the same paradigm exists with feeding "the poor".
If every leftist who's trying to shift the responsibility for the Schumer shutdown was willing to buy food for "the poor" with their own money, nobody would be in danger of going hungry.
The minute a leftist is asked if they are willing to house illegals in the own home, they make excuses.
What's the relevance here?
I believe the same paradigm exists with feeding "the poor".
If every leftist who's trying to shift the responsibility for the Schumer shutdown was willing to buy food for "the poor" with their own money, nobody would be in danger of going hungry.
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T. A. Gardner
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Ad hominem. You got nothing.
I’ve asked dozens of times and no takers.
The far left loons want us to support illegals but they won’t take even one into their homes.
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More to the point of this discussion, they don't even pretend that they're willing to feed "the poor" at their own expense.
So much for their pretense of "caring".
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T. A. Gardner
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They are however, willing to use YOURS and MY money to feed them, give them healthcare, and all sorts of other goodies.
Jake Starkey
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Telling the truthful facts, which I did, is not ad hom, podjo.