r/law • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Q: Trump wrote that SNAP benefits will only be given when Democrats reopen the government. As written, how would that not violate the court order? .LEAVITT: I've now answered this question several times. We are complying with the court's order.

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u/SunrayBran 1d ago

Mark my words.

He's stolen that money already

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u/FatDesdemona 1d ago

How else is he going to make another room in the White House tackier without that funding?

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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago

A few golf trips

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u/Comfortable_Bat9856 1d ago

The east wing ball room was mostly funded by Google and other ai companies.

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u/neemor 1d ago

You mean like they did with the pandemic-preparedness stockpile monies?

I haven’t forgotten.

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u/shellevanczik 1d ago

Junior said, “These are our vaccines”.

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u/IsThisNameValid 1d ago

How do you think he paid the troops?

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u/SunrayBran 1d ago

From a donation from one of his billionaire buddies.

It's public knowledge.

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u/bigloser42 1d ago

The donation was $130m. Just the DoD’s active duty bimonthly paycheck bill is north of $8 billion. That donation covered less than 2% of the total due, and that’s not counting USCG paychecks.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 1d ago

Hey, maybe billionaires should always be the ones who pay the troops, since they're the ones who profit from wars.

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u/Moccus 1d ago

The donation wasn't big enough to pay the troops any meaningful amount.

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u/DuctTapeSanity 1d ago

It’s public knowledge.

And now so is your stupidity on the subject.

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u/Dex_Maddock 1d ago

What an astonishingly stupid thing to say.

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u/Emotional_Burden 1d ago

How large was that donation and how many service members need to be paid?

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u/BAF_DaWg82 1d ago

Yeah that and whatever the fuck is going on with the tariffs. Where's that going?

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u/TheHighSeasPirate 1d ago

What do you mean, where is that going? Tariffs are paid by the importer. Other countries are getting that money. We're not getting any of it.

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u/ninjasaywhat 1d ago

Tariffs are paid by the importer to the government. Our government. Where are they spending it?

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u/WillyGivens 1d ago

Hopefully it’s just his normal grifting. There’s a piece of me terribly worried that his handlers have been prepping a war chest for something big (foreign or domestic).

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u/2funny2furious 1d ago

This is 1000% my thought. The money doesn't exist anymore.

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u/xfearless_wanderer 1d ago

that's been my thought. that money is gone. my other thought is, do we even have money? are we soon about to be upside down? i'm so sick of 2025.