Here is a sickening rundown in the New York Times of the impact of the suspension of SNAP and other antipoverty programs on tens of millions of Americans … the Trump administration is entirely happy to leave poor people hungry and cold.
“For 42 million people who rely on SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, it means the loss of grocery assistance when food banks are already stretched thin. For the 6.7 million women and children who participate in the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, or WIC, there is uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will find stopgap funds to keep the program going after this week.”
Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if the federal government remains shut down.
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it’s horrifying and wrenching. The constant theme of the Trump Administration: cruelty.
And in the midst of this, Trump hosts a gaudy, gauche, Gatsby-themed party at Mar-A-Lago for the oligarchs. And, while Administration officials seems to say that they will comply with the recent court order and provide at least partial benefits, Trump is sending signals of defiance. As I saw asked somewhere, could we have a more Marie-Antoinette-let-them-eat-cake moment?
But, I do have the sense that people are starting to catch on. Let’s hope today’s elections give more credence to that!
(As an aside: I can’t imagine that Trump has ever read Gatsby — anything longer than a half-page is demanding too much. But the ironies in the inherited-money, failed-businessman, lavish-party-to-cover-your-inadequacies Trump choosing Gatsby for a theme . . . well, it’s all self-satire. Even Fitzgerald could not have made this stuff up.)