In Hawaii, Oregon and Wisconsin, officials worked quickly after a judge ordered full benefit payments Thursday to instruct their EBT providers to process the full payments.
“We moved with haste once we verified everything,” Joseph Campos II, deputy director of Hawaii’s Department of Human Services, told The Associated Press.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, said state employees “worked through the night” to issue full November benefits “to make sure every Oregon family relying on SNAP could buy groceries” over the weekend.
Officials in California, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington also confirmed that some SNAP recipients were issued their full November payments on Friday.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, said more than 250,00 households that missed their regular monthly SNAP payment during the first week of November received their full amount on Friday. The remaining beneficiaries would receive their November funds on their regularly scheduled dates later this month — if distribution does not remain blocked by legal challenges.
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I notice that it’s mostly blue leaning states rushing to help people not starve. I guess it’s not a surprise, but people in red states are going to be affected by the lack of SNAP the most. I doubt it’ll make them stop voting against their own interests, of course.
Red states in general also just have more redistribution of wealth, or input of money from elsewhere via assistance, than blue states. They use more social services.
In point of fact: statistically speaking, red states tend to be net detractors from the federal budget, while blue states tend to be net contributors.
A speedrun of Natural Selection, it would seem.
Oh great. Just like with abortion, minimum wage, and cannabis legalization, this is now a Red State Problem Democrats Don’t Have To Care About.
So, where MAGAts hold the reigns they let their people suffer?
Once again I’m reminded of this quote from 2016 or 17:
They voted for the elephant in the china shop. They did not realize that they were the china.
if distribution does not remain blocked by legal challenges.
I’m assuming that the SCOTUS emergency order to not fund snap benefits means that the people entitled to these funds are being denied.
