Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.
Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”
“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”
In your first example, it is the USDA defying Trump’s order. Ketanji Brown Jackson just paused the order to pay full SNAP benefits until the appeal on the first circuit not even a day after the Court of Appeals maintained that SNAP benefits had to be paid in full even with the shutdown in place.
In your second example, it isn’t even a court order, it’s just Elon Musk bootlickers realising that he did a lot of shit, rehiring federal workers so that the government can somewhat function.
Here is the step by step reality of what is actually happening:
As a bargaining chip, Trump said he wouldn’t be funding SNAP at all until the shut down was over. Allegedly the budget just didn’t exist due to the shutdown.
Last week, one of the U.S. district judges who apparently aren’t doing “chicken shit,” (McConnell) ordered the USDA to use $4.65 billion in emergency funding to partially cover SNAP benefits for November. The Tump administration back peddled, and already agreed to provide the partial funding (a little over half the funding necessary for the entire month). That’s why even conservative states like my own quietly released more partial funding on the 7th (but shhh 🤫 that kind of destroys the entire argument judges have no power).
Why did the Trump administration back peddle and agree to even partially fund SNAP? Probably because between those no king rallies that “aren’t doing anything,” and the sweeping victories of Democrats across the nation this past week, the GOP are understandably a little spooked. Especially considering one of the no king rallies that “aren’t doing anything,” took place in a conservative TN district that also voted Democrat in their local election last week (despite very strong support for Trump in the 2024 presidential election).
After Trump’s administration agreed to fund half of the SNAP budget, on Thursday of this week, judge McConnell issued a new order that the USDA to use a separate department program that has $23.35 billion in funding from tariffs that support child nutrition, to make up the shortfall and pay the full amount for the month (~$8.5 to $9B total) by a deadline on Friday.
On Friday, JD Vance and other like minded individuals seemed to suddenly forget the administration already agreed to follow the chicken shit judges orders to partially fund SNAP, and Vance went on TV to remind America that judges aren’t the boss of the president.
What’s most interesting to me is that in order to buy Vance’s propaganda, you have to believe that Trump is both somehow above judicial rule, but also a victim of crooked partisan judges who are using their authority (that they don’t have?) to pick on the poor almighty ruler.
So instead of just using his magic wand to do whatever he wants, the Trump administration asked the 1st circuit to halt McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP. (Some might argue that partially funding SNAP after saying there would be no funding, already proves the chicken shit judges are doing “something,” but to do that you would also need to admit the administration has somehow already been partially reigned in by the chicken shit judges who do nothing and hold no power over the magical king president.)
The administration also appealed to the 1st circuit. The 1st circuit denied their request for an administrative stay (so the deadline was still the deadline). They have yet to make a decision on the formal request, but the panel of 3 democratic judges said they will be doing so as quickly as possible.
Since the 1st circuit denied the administrative stay, the USDA issued the memo you’re dismissing, saying they agreed to fund SNAP in full. However, in order to kick the can a little further down the road, or at least score some “victim of judicial abuse points,” they could later reference on Fox News this weekend, the administration then requested an emergency stay from the supreme court.
Although it’s obvious what the decision would have been if a democratic president was asking for this emergency stay in a district where the case was being decided by a conservative justice, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson surprised everyone by destroying their go to argument of “politicized judicial abuse,” and instead granted the Trump administration a temporary stay which will expire after the lower “chicken shit” court gives their final ruling, (and most likely will just enforce McConnell’s original rule).
In other words, the administration did all of this, to have courts reach the same decision and force them to fully fund SNAP, but they do get to ignore the Friday deadline to provide full funding. Behold the almighty king’s rule, and tremble at the chaos that has been laid out before you!
So yes, the main take away here is clearly: chicken shit judges have no power to do anything (as long as you ignore what they’ve already partially done and will make a final decision about fully doing soon), nobody can tell the president what to do (except for the chicken shit judges who apparently can’t do anything except what they can do, but are also somehow welding their useless but mighty power to abuse the almighty rule of the king who cannot be stopped by those judges), and the No Kings protests don’t do anything either (except spread public awareness, win elections for the opposition, and scare the GOP into backing down from their original threats).
If the US justice system was remotely functioning, Trump and many of his admin would be rotting in jail right now and we wouldn’t have come this far in the fascist state.
The courts have pushed half a funding of the SNAP?! What a victory for all the Americans! Hurray! How about shutting that shit down completely and hand the Trump admin its ass like it ought to?
Imagine celebrating what is going on right now with the SNAP funding as a win?
So yeah, the judges are chicken shit and they’ve failed the people.