On a federal court ruling tonight ordering the admin to fully fund SNAP,
@VP tells me:
VP JD VANCE: “Look Jacqui, it's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of a Democrat government shutdown, which what we'd like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government. Of course, then we can fund SNAP. We can also do a lot of other good things for the American people. But in the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation. We're trying to keep as much turned on. We're trying to keep as much going as possible. The president and the entire administration are working on that, but we're not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge. We're going to do it according to what we think we have to do to comply with the law, of course, but also to actually make the government work for people in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown. If they would like to end this, we would be welcome. We would welcome working with them to end this government shutdown, and then we wouldn't have to triage what we're going to fund and what we're not going to fund. And the last thing that I'll say is the American people are unfortunately about to start suffering some very real consequences because of the shutdown.”
VANCE continues: “In the past, when you had a government shutdown, you would have you under the Obama administration, they would lean into all of the problems it was going to cause for the American people. At the beginning of the shutdown. The president has told us to keep as much going as humanly possible. But after 30 days of this thing, 40 days of this thing, you're going to start seeing very real travel delays. That's because the Democrat government shutdown, you're going to start seeing snap benefits run out. That's because the Democrat government shutdown, they should stop this charade and open up the government. That's what we want them to do. We've been asking to do it for 40 days. It's time.”