When it gets personal ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, provides aid to about one in eight Americans.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

When you deny food from folks based on politics and a lie, people remember and what the administration from hell is doing is making said denial personal. Combine this with Epstein, a tanking economy, Medicaid cuts and exploding Affordable Care costs and one sees a perfect storm brewing, costing the Orange Menace dearly regarding the midterms, something the repugs are starting to realize with great anxiety as we move closer to 2026.

The Trump administration moved on Friday to deny swift and full food stamp payments to millions of low-income Americans, as it asked a federal appeals court to halt a judge’s recent order that would preserve those benefits during the shutdown.

The legal salvo once again plunged the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, into confusion and chaos — and raised the possibility that the poorest families may receive no aid while the fiscal stalemate in Washington remains unresolved.

The Trump administration specifically sought to challenge a ruling handed down by a lower court on Thursday. In that scathing order, Judge John J. McConnell Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, directed the government to tap an ample store of leftover federal money to fund food stamps in their entirety for this month.

In doing so, the judge faulted President Trump and his top aides for using the nation’s largest anti-hunger program as a political bargaining chip. And he gave the government a Friday deadline to comply and release full payments for states, which administer food stamps for roughly 42 million people.

But the art of stupid prevails ...

But lawyers for the government asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to halt that requirement and render a ruling before 4 p.m. If the administration prevails, it could severely cut or delay aid that helps many families purchase groceries.

It's personal now.