Trump, Supreme Court and Food Stamp
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President Donald Trump signed legislation to end the longest government shutdown in US history, marking the official conclusion to a 43-day impasse that halted food aid to millions of households, canceled thousands of flights and forced federal workers to go unpaid for more than a month.
The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless.
Fully restarting the federal bureaucracy after the longest US government shutdown in history could still take days
Here's how Oklahoma compares to other states in population with SNAP, and what counties will be most affected as the government shutdown continues.
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Chuck Schumer demands GOPers put food stamps-only bill to vote instead of reopening government
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has resisted calls for smaller, separate spending bills after Schumer and his party voted 13 times to deny all federal funding and keep the government shut
Instead of letting federal judges tell the executive branch how to spend its limited resources, the Democrats should just end the shutdown.
The next Conservative government will abolish stamp duty on the sale of main homes, Kemi Badenoch has said, in a surprise announcement at the end of her first conference speech as party leader. Badenoch received a standing ovation from Tory activists in ...