
In Donald Trump‘s Great America, nothing says public service like a weekend at a resort while families wait for their groceries. Right after he blocked SNAP payments for 42 million Americans, the president’s private jet landed in Mar-a-Lago.
The Supreme Court’s emergency order on SNAP is a victory for Trump, since starving millions counts as one for him. On Nov. 8, the Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring the administration to release full November SNAP payments to roughly 42 million Americans. All these people rely on food assistance during the record-long government shutdown, but the Trump administration has been begging for a freeze on the payments.