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This is an example of a *stupid* report. There are drug lords who don't have "150" police officers guarding them. I'm sure he needs security. Because he's a stupid communist, and likely muslim, I'm sure he multiplied the need for security by...3?
That means he probably has 20 full time security people on his detail.
[JustTheNews] Their letter asked for reconsideration of the USDA guidance, which would exclude noncitizens who are permanent residents from eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined 21 other state attorneys general
…the usual Dem-controlled suspects. Scroll down for the list…
in sending a letter this week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pushing back against guidance on the nation’s food stamp program.
Their letter asked for reconsideration of the USDA guidance, which would exclude noncitizens who are permanent residents from eligibility for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The USDA manages SNAP.
SNAP, which is known as CalFresh in California, would exclude noncitizen permanent residents, including humanitarian refugees, from being able to continue receiving SNAP benefits, according to USDA guidance.
According to Bonta’s office, the USDA interpreted H.R.1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to make that exclusion, barring certain noncitizens from being eligible for the federally funded SNAP program. That interpretation is wrong, the California attorney general's office said.
“The USDA wants states to implement confusing and inaccurate interpretations of the law that would wrongfully deny eligibility for food assistance to thousands of lawfully residing immigrants,” Bonta said in a press release Wednesday. “If USDA’s guidance is not fixed, certain legal permanent residents could needlessly go hungry. I urge the USDA to take immediate action to rectify its errors.”
Noncitizens are eligible to receive SNAP benefits if they become permanent residents, the press release said. In the letter sent to the USDA, Bonta and the other state attorneys general whose names are on the letter said they were concerned humanitarian migrants, in particular, would be wrongfully excluded from receiving these benefits.
This can mean less or no money for groceries for many families, according to the National Immigration Law Center.
“In a family with a mom who is a refugee with two U.S. citizen children, the mom would lose SNAP eligibility, but the two children would still be eligible,” the National Immigration Law Center wrote in a blog post. “The family would receive pro-rated assistance, which means they would have fewer dollars each month.”
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed in Congress in July, amended the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to take SNAP eligibility away from those who came to the United States as migrants, the press release said. Those who were granted asylum or humanitarian parole are also excluded from SNAP benefits by the new USDA guidance.
According to Bonta’s office, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act didn’t exclude from SNAP benefits those who used to be considered refugees, asylum seekers, those on humanitarian parole and those who had the status of “deportation withheld” if anyone with such a status became a permanent resident.
According to the letter, sent on Wednesday, the state attorneys general expressed frustration that the USDA waited four months after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed to issue the guidance. The USDA also only gave states one day to fully implement the new guidance, a departure from the usual 120 days given to states to adjust to new federal guidance, the letter stated. States have to pay fines when they do not follow guidance after that period.
“The importance of timely, accurate, and consistent instruction from USDA cannot be overstated,” the state attorneys general said in the letter. “The errors in the guidance’s eligibility instructions for humanitarian entrants like refugees and asylees will create confusion and inconsistency among state agencies and potentially deprive thousands of [legal permanent residents] of food assistance to which they are entitled under the law.”
The USDA guidance also says that humanitarian entrants must wait five years before becoming eligible, but Bonta and the other state attorneys general said in their letter that those groups should be immediately eligible upon getting permanent resident status.
According to the letter, 85% of the 95,000 adults who came to the U.S. as refugees between 2017 and 2022 became permanent residents by the end of 2024, and 109,000 adults who were granted affirmative asylum in the U.S. between 2014 and 2021, 88% had permanent resident status by 2023.
"Secretary [Brooke] Rollins wants to ensure the fraud, waste, and incessant abuse of SNAP ends," said a U.S.D.A. spokesperson in an email to The Center Square. "Rates of fraud were only previously assumed, and President Trump is doing something about it. Using standard recertification processes for households is a part of that work, as well as ongoing analysis of State data, further regulatory work, and improved collaboration with States."
The California departments of Health and Human Services, Social Services and Justice were not available for comment on Friday. Legislators who sit on food- or health-related committees also were unavailable.
The other state attorneys general who signed the letter include those from New York, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington state and Wisconsin.
According to the USDA, 41.7 million people received SNAP benefits every month in 2024.
Federal SNAP spending came out to $99.8 billion, and recipients got an average of $187.20 a month. The California Legislative Analysts Office reported that administering CalFresh cost $2.1 billion in 2020-21, which was paid for by $1 billion of federal money, $740 million from California’s general fund and $290 million in funds from the counties of California.
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A Directive of Guidance may be issued pretty quickly once policy is established.
A regulation has to go through a process that can take awhile. First a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which allows comments. Then a Final Rulemaking requires addressing all substantive comments. This is per the Administrative Procedures Act.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
11/23/2025 8:47 Comments ||
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Paul's 2nd Letter to the Thessalonians - 3:6–12 ESV
"6 Now we command you, brothers, sin the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,
8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
9 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.
10 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
11 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.
12 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living."
Mainstream liberal churches have a problem explaining the meaning when this little section comes up in the readings Lectionary.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/23/2025 15:03 Comments ||
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[CONSERVATIVEBRIEF] The U.S. Supreme Court has reduced the scope of environmental studies for key infrastructure projects, potentially accelerating the permitting process for highways, airports, and pipelines. The judgment is the latest loss for environmentalists at the conservative Supreme Court, which has recently thrown down measures aimed at protecting wetlands and preventing cross-state air pollution.
President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... has often criticized the government's environmental assessment process as overly onerous. The National Environmental Policy Act, signed by President Richard Nixon, is regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of environmental legislation enacted at the start of the modern environmental movement.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the court's ruling without any dissent. Ultimately, both liberal and conservative justices agreed with the final verdict.
Kavanaugh ruled that the environmental issues in the case—an 88-mile railway that would transport waxy crude oil from Utah's Uinta Basin to existing rail networks—were ''not close.''
''Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness,'' Kavanaugh wrote.
''Simply stated, NEPA is a procedural cross-check, not a substantive roadblock,'' he later added. ''The goal of the law is to inform agency decision-making, not to paralyze it.''
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, recused himself from the case. He did not explain his decision to withdraw the appeal, but it came after Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... on Capitol Hill claimed that Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz, a major Gorsuch supporter, had a financial stake in the result of the case.
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Funny how the environmentalists were relatively inactive with regard to the California high speed rail project.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
11/23/2025 6:34 Comments ||
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The environmental reviews were used to slow roll Republican projects. Plain and simple, take years to do studies, raise costs, and bankrupt contractors. Being told to do aten year project on the emotional effects of a seal or whatever is just dreaming up ways to shut down projects. CA is no better, in the Panasades they had their first house fit for occupancy. The environmental requirements for remediation for the soil was extra ordinary. Home owners had to use only the state listed contractors, read blue paying supporters. Red contractors that did the work to the letter were never inspected and never passed, because they did not used the dem contributor contractor. Evern worse, if you did the remediation by a re contractor, to the letter, you had to pay the bule contractor to come and redo it, usually nothing more than repermiting, but the citizen had to pay the full price over. The Chevron doctrine has to be overthrown in full by scotus.
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11/23/2025 12:36 Comments ||
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[FozxNews] House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., rejected the Clintons' attorney's proposal to provide written answers
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.,
…who is a very busy man…
is urging former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to comply with subpoenas requiring them to appear for in-person deposition for the committee’s probe looking into late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking case.
Comer first ordered the Clintons in August to appear before the committee for an in-person deposition. However, the Clintons’ attorney, David Kendall, said Nov. 3 his clients could instead provide written answers because it is "the most efficient and equitable way to proceed."
But Comer said such an arrangement was unacceptable.
It’s been a long time since they were special, which is why the money isn’t pouring in like it used to.
"Given their history with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, any attempt by the Clintons to avoid sitting for a deposition would be in defiance of lawful subpoenas and grounds to initiate contempt of Congress proceedings," Comer said in a statement Friday that accompanied a letter to Kendall.
Comer said Friday that future delays would amount to defying a lawful subpoena. Comer said Bill Clinton’s deposition is scheduled for Dec. 17, and Hillary Clinton’s is scheduled for Dec. 18.
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Sure, I totally believe they'll be testifying honestly and fully in December.
These are two of the most *evil* people to ever rise to power. And Bill is the lesser of the two. "Our" GOP should be the source of scorn for the fact that they never held Hillary accountable for the crimes she committed as Secretary of State. They went intentionally *stupid* on what the requirements were regarding digital security. Some dumb corporal at Ft. Benning in Georgia would have served 10 years or more for a tenth of what that evil bitch did as Secretary of State.
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Not to mention Benghazi! Make Rope Great Again!
Posted by: chris ||
11/23/2025 3:52 Comments ||
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I suspect that Comer will not jail either Clinton. The aroma of this efforts has strong notes of Trey Gowdy.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
11/23/2025 6:36 Comments ||
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And Bill is the lesser of the two.
No, he is merely considerably more charming. They’re lifelong partners: he sent out his bodyguards to bring him the women who caught his eye, she ruined their reputations in the court of public opinion. She sold access, and sold out Libya, as secretary of state, but he had more scope as president.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...every time you hear the phrase 
