Trump administration urges court to allow food stamp restrictions to go into effect
Source: The Hill
The Trump administration is asking a federal judge to allow it to move forward with new restrictions on food stamps that could leave as many as 700,000 people without access to the assistance program. In a filing submitted to the court late Wednesday night, the administration argued that any potential harms that the lawsuit raises about the new regulation are "either self-inflicted, insufficiently explained, or too insignificant to justify an injunction."
Facing a lawsuit over the move from more than a dozen states and cities, the Department of Justice urged Judge Beryl A. Howell, an Obama appointee in the U.S. District Court for D.C., to deny the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction that would temporarily block the move before it can go into effect in April.
Last month, a group of 17 cities and states, led by those from D.C. and New York, sued the USDA and asked Howell to prevent the rule from going into effect while the court fight plays out.
"The loss of essential food and nutrition by hundreds of thousands of individuals will result in detrimental health outcomes, increased use of health services, including emergency and hospital services, and increased rates of poverty and housing instability," the group of officials wrote in their lawsuit. "Plaintiffs will bear the burdens associated with reduced quality in residents’ healthcare, housing, and nutrition, and they will suffer irreparable harm to their public health."
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why not attack those that need it the most?
That's the country we now live in.
the poor and needy.
