Out on the Weekend

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)

On Friday, another federal judge told the president that he can't use starving children as leverage to get what he wants from his pet Speaker of the House. From NBC News:

A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to distribute money owed to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program "as soon as possible," just one day before funding for SNAP was set to lapse. U.S. District Judge John McConnell's ruling from the bench came shortly after another federal judge in a separate case said that the Trump administration's plan not to pay out SNAP benefits beginning on Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal government shut

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