What was the plan for the SNAP brick wall? [View all]

If there was one, I don't remember seeing any good plays coming out of it. I hope there was a plan, because failing to plan is planning to fail as everyone knows.

From the outside, it looked to me like some were just going to hope Trump wouldn't appeal the last SNAP decision from lower courts and would just fund it fully. I think that's unlikely, unless he got visited in the night by Thanksgiving ghosts.

Barring spectral intervention, if Trump did appeal, the hope might have been that the Supreme Court would rule against him. I admit I don't know which way they would have gone. But they tend to agree with him most of the time.

Meanwhile, people were going to go hungry. If ever there was a need for a plan to prevent something, it's that. The compromise does that.

Personally, as I understand it, I think we got the best win we could expect. People have food through September of next year. We strengthened our ownership of the affordability issue. We pushed the ownership of the health care premium spike to Republicans. The current compromise only lasts until January 30th when the government can shut down again. And I certainly hope it won't.

If we could have planned this outcome, it would have been a pretty good plan.

I think we should take the win and not try to turn it into a loss. If folks choose to make us feel like we lost, then I'd like an explanation of the practical path to victory we missed taking. I'm not talking about accepting the prospect of hungry people, accepting federal workers going without pay, and making fierce-sounding YouTubes and tweets. I'd like an explanation of how we would have avoided hunger, gotten federal workers paid, and somehow gotten the Republicans to capitulate on the premium subsidies.