A government’s most important job is to meet its promises to its citizens. For 1/8th of our neighbors, our government has failed to complete that job to make sure families had food on their tables.
It is unacceptable that the Trump administration had to be reprimanded by the courts to do the obvious thing to make sure 40 million people had food to eat. It is also unacceptable that our representatives cannot do the obvious, humane things to open our government.
It’s well past time to get back to work.
SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed