'Shame On Him!': Ex-Prosecutor Schools JD Vance Over 'Absurd' SNAP Comments
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Barbara McQuade checked the vice president using his own educational background.
Ex-federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade slammed JD Vance on Friday after the vice president brushed off a federal judge’s “absurd ruling” requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to pay full food benefits for November.
“JD Vance is a law school graduate — shame on him,” said McQuade in an interview with MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera.
Vance, in remarks following the judge’s ruling on Thursday, claimed that the administration can only make full Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) payments after Democrats “open up the government.”
“In the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation,” he said. “We’re not going to do it under the orders of a federal judge.”
Earlier in the day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture — which administers the program — told states that it was working to comply with the judge’s ruling. The Supreme Court has since paused the order requiring the administration to pay full SNAP benefits for November.
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