@carstenfranke Trump and the Republicans are moving to fund SNAP.
It's Senate Democrats who are voting to block the legislation.
@carstenfranke I'm aware, but that's not the question on the table at the moment.
Right now the Democrats have been voting to block all of the rest of the funding to SNAP, which is why this issue came up.
Democrats are blocking the legislation that would continue funding, and they need to be held accountable for that.
They are ensuring that there is no funding instead of the compromise that had been reached before.
@carstenfranke The BBB was a compromise, preserving a lot of funding when a lot of voices on that side wanted it to be cut a whole lot more.
But apparently Democrats would rather zero out funding for SNAP, as they are taking a hard line and blocking all funding for the program.
But we should be clear, Democrats blocking funding for SNAP are turning their backs on the compromise that was passed earlier in the year. So Democrats vote against all funding for SNAP, and again, we need to hold them accountable for that vote against funding.
@carstenfranke Yes that's the point!
It was a compromise that could barely make it through because different congresspeople wanted different things, and this is where they met in the middle, a compromise that didn't make many people happy overall.
But again, you're relitigating the last fight. We've moved on to this new one. That's done, it's not on the table right now.
What's on the table right now is whether to fund SNAP and other government programs now, and Democrats are voting against the funding while Republicans are voting in favor of funding SNAP.
@carstenfranke That's not quite how it works.
Just because there is money in the account does not mean that the office responsible for spending the money itself is funded.
There are a lot of parts of government that are experiencing exactly that right now, where there is technically funding appropriated, but the offices needed to write the actual checks aren't funded so the money can't be released.
That's just how the federal government works.
