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WTF?? USDA, promises full benefits while felon's lawyers appeal to kill the order to pay full benefits???
From USDA website as of right now:
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/updated-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap-november-benefit-issuance
DATE: 11/07/2025
TO: Regional Directors
SNAP Division
All Regions
SNAP State Agency Directors
All State Agencies
FROM: Patrick A. Penn
Deputy Under Secretary
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
SUBJECT: Updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) November Benefit Issuance
FNS is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court of Rhode Island. Later today, FNS will complete the processes necessary to make funds available to support your subsequent transmittal of full issuance files to your EBT processor.
We will keep you as up to date as possible on any future developments and appreciate your continued partnership to serve program beneficiaries across the country. State agencies with questions should contact their FNS Regional Office representative.
Sincerely,
Patrick A. Penn
Deputy Under Secretary
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
TO: Regional Directors
SNAP Division
All Regions
SNAP State Agency Directors
All State Agencies
FROM: Patrick A. Penn
Deputy Under Secretary
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
SUBJECT: Updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) November Benefit Issuance
FNS is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court of Rhode Island. Later today, FNS will complete the processes necessary to make funds available to support your subsequent transmittal of full issuance files to your EBT processor.
We will keep you as up to date as possible on any future developments and appreciate your continued partnership to serve program beneficiaries across the country. State agencies with questions should contact their FNS Regional Office representative.
Sincerely,
Patrick A. Penn
Deputy Under Secretary
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
So, while "FNS is working towards implementing November 2025 full benefit issuances in compliance with the November 6, 2025, order from the District Court of Rhode Island," the administration appeals to stay the order???
The panel that will rule on the appeal hasn't been announced, but if they stay the order they are insane trump minions. The argument that they need to save the money for WIC is a complete non-starter.
Consider:
- The current balance of Section 32 is reported to be 23 billion.
- Funding Food Nutrition Service (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs is a key purpose for the Section 32 fund.
- 39% of SNAP recipients are children. That makes it a child nutrition program as important as WIC and school lunch programs.
- WIC costs 600 million per month.
- SNAP costs 8 billion.
- The balance of the SNAP contingency fund is reported to be at least 5 billion, leaving 3 billion to be made up from Section 32.
- Section 32 is funded by 30% of customs duties from the prior year. Hasn't Trump been telling us that they've collected trillions in tariffs? Even if reality is closer to 100 billion, that means come 1/1/2025, the Section 32 fund is getting a deposit of about 30 billion that is COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Even if SNAP and WIC need to be fully funded from Section 32 funds for both November AND December, the balance in Section 32 is only reduced to somewhere around 10.8 billion -- and will be replenished with 30% of tariffs collected in 2024, completely independent of the budget appropriations process.
3 billion SNAP Nov
8 billion SNAP Dec
O.6 billion WIC Nov
0.6 billion WIC Dec
---------------------+
12.2 billion total