Let them go hungry!

It's not okay to keep food which is readily available from reaching people who are hungry. Period. 

Yet that is what Budget Tsar Russell Vought is doing in order to try to force Democratic Senators to pass Republicans' big bill which takes money from healthcare and gives it as tax breaks to Donald's billionaire buddies. 

Along with other lawlessness, there goes SNAP food aid and some fishermen for desert.

Economist Paul Krugman summarizes this move:

Despite the government shutdown, the SNAP program isn’t out of money. In fact, it has $5 billion in contingency funds, intended as a reserve to be tapped in emergencies. And if the imminent cutoff of crucial food aid for 40 million people isn’t an emergency, what is? ...

He goes on to show a map of where the resulting hunger will be worst; looks to me as if the harm will be most severe in some native tribal areas and in pockets of the deep South that vote for Trump. They are beating up on the most vulnerable people, a lot their own supporters.

The Orange Toddler has other priorities. Like extorting the government for $230 billion in compensation for investigating his crimes during the previous administration.

And turning the People's House into a tacky monument to himself.

SNAP is a pillar of my working poor neighborhood. The little stores will be in trouble, as well as families, many of which include workers who simply don't make enough to get by without help.

This is what MAGA grievance has wrought.