Paradox seems to be the guiding principle of today's food policies.

For example, the Trump Administration is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that the nation's longstanding trade deficit is a national "emergency" that empowers the President to impose–then dispose, impose, and re-impose–tariffs.

At the same time, its U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) argues it is unable to use a $5-billion contingency fund to pay SNAP benefits to over 40 million Americans after Nov. 1 because there is "no national emergency."

Then there's this riddle inside that paradox: How can the White House quickly find $13 billion for American farmers to pay for its tariff fight but can't find a single cent for 42 million American SNAP dependents to feed them through a political fight?

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