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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 1d

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

If the President wants the government to reopen, he should sit down and negotiate with Democrats! He should not starve his own people!

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

There’s no reason to believe that the President would stop doing those things if Democrats voted with him!

Trump is starving the poorest people in our society because Democrats won’t let him repeal Obamacare. Why would they vote to fund a government so mired in bad faith?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

I think this is going to do the opposite. The Trump Administration is demonstrating for everyone to see that they desperately need to be reined in. The President is ignoring laws and hurting people.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

Anyway, the Trump Administration has the power to turn SNAP back on. They only turned it off because they hope it will demoralize Democrats and scare them into voting for their bill that functionally takes Americans’ healthcare away.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

They got away with doing this to foreigners. Now they are doing it to Americans.

It makes me wonder what else they are currently doing to “foreigners/migrants/illegals” that they hope to eventually do to Americans?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

In short, the Trump White House is illegally impounding funds that are supposed to be spent on Americans.

This is pretty similar to what they did with USAID. Congress mandated that the White House deliver aid to the poor. The White House refused. Millions went hungry.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

The Food and Nutrition Act, which governs SNAP, states “Assistance under this program SHALL be furnished to all eligible households who make application for such participation.”

It is illegal to deliberately withhold benefits from people that qualify for SNAP.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

Now the Trump Admin is claiming their hands are tied and that people have to go hungry. This simply isn’t true! They have the money to issue benefits. They are CHOOSING not to.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

And the Admin knows this! During their lapse preparations in September, they circulated a memo outlining how they would use the contingency fund to keep benefits flowing. A few days ago, that memo was mysteriously pulled from the website.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

Well, USDA has a SNAP contingency fund that is specifically designed to keep the program open during shutdowns. The Secretary of Agriculture also has broad transfer authority, allowing her to use other pools of money during an emergency. There is no reason for SNAP to shut down!

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

Because of the Government Shutdown SNAP has temporarily run out of money in its main account. The Trump Admin claims they now have to turn off benefits.

But that is untrue! One month ago, they were circulating a memo that said benefits would not be turned off. What’s up w/ that?

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · 22h

I know a thing or two about SNAP because President Biden appointed me to work in the office that oversees that program at USDA.

You should know that people are going to go hungry this month because the Trump White House deliberately chose to withhold their benefits.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

Surprised to learn that Zootopia 2 will boil down to fourteen scenes about seven people, two houses, a motorcycle, and a locked treatment facility for adolescent boys.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · May 21

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Apr 28

A few weeks ago, Gretchen Whitmer was in DC to share her vision for the future. I usually quite like the Governor, but I find her vision uncompelling.

Hop in kids - We’re going blogging!

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Apr 9

What’s the deal with Trump’s tariffs? Why is he deliberately crashing the stock market?

I have a theory:

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Donald Trump and the Republicans have a secret plan to steal your 401k.

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Mar 25

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Mar 22

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Mar 22

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Frankie Hill 👉🏻 ✋🏻 @frankierox.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 15

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks

The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

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