As the Trump administration illegally withholds food assistance from 42 million Americans, it's also telling stores it's against the law for them to provide discounts to those struggling after being robbed of their benefits.
I guess I’m the designated article-reader today. TL;DR: Businesses need government approval to process EBT payments for the SNAP program. The regime is strictly interpreting a regulation that’s intended to prevent price-gouging SNAP recipients to inflict maximum cruelty by preventing discounts instead. It could enforce the rule by revoking a store’s SNAP-EBT approval.
If the SNAP program is supposedly unable to function because the government is shut down, how is it still somehow finding the money and manpower to enforce its regulations?
No money or manpower to help the public, yet somehow plenty to harm.
I guess I’m the designated article-reader today. TL;DR: Businesses need government approval to process EBT payments for the SNAP program. The regime is strictly interpreting a regulation that’s intended to prevent price-gouging SNAP recipients to inflict maximum cruelty by preventing discounts instead. It could enforce the rule by revoking a store’s SNAP-EBT approval.
So then you just give discounts to everyone. Thats how Hy-Vee is handling it. https://www.hy-vee.com/corporate/news-events/promotions/nov-kids-eat-free-3-meals/
The Administration can’t follow the rules to pay out SNAP, but expects others to follow the rules exactly.
In-group that the law protects, out-group that the law binds.
If the SNAP program is supposedly unable to function because the government is shut down, how is it still somehow finding the money and manpower to enforce its regulations?
No money or manpower to help the public, yet somehow plenty to harm.