This Psychological Term Explains How GOP Officials Justify Harm
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This concept helps potentially shed light on the justification for limiting food assistance, among other events.
When the Trump administration declined to tap into contingency funds that could have kept food assistance going during the government shutdown, the justification that leaders offered was a claim of powerlessness.
“There’s no legal mechanism to do it,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters.
“My understanding is that the administration made the assessment that those funds could not be used for this purpose,” said Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.) on CNN.
As families across the country worried about how they’d put food on the table, leaders portrayed the harm as beyond their control.
But such claims stand in contrast to legal experts’ analysis, to the president’s actions during the last government shutdown, and to an earlier memo from Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Agriculture that suggested the government could in fact keep funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in the event of another impasse.
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