White House walks back Trump’s threat to SNAP

President Donald Trump caused specific confusion earlier Tuesday when he appeared to threaten SNAP benefits unless Democrats voted to reopen the regime despite court orders mandating that the administration keep the nation s largest food activity running Press secretary Karoline Levitt explained Tuesday the administration continues to pay out SNAP funding using contingency funding which is what two separate judges ordered on Monday The U S Department of Agriculture had planned to freeze SNAP payments starting Nov because of a lapse in funds during the authorities shutdown In a social media post Tuesday morning Trump explained SNAP benefits had been handed out haphazardly under his predecessor SNAP benefits will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up governing body which they can easily do and not before Trump added The regime says the emergency fund it will use has enough to cover about half the normal benefits Leavitt reported Trump does not want to have to tap into this fund in the future which is what he meant by his social media post earlier in the day The post White House walks back Trump s threat to SNAP appeared first on MinnPost