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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt says the administration is fully complying with the court order to release SNAP benefits following a post from President Trump saying the benefits will be given only when, quote, the radical left Democrats open up government. This month, SNAP beneficiaries will get only half their regular amount.
NPR's Jennifer Ludden has more on the impact.
Chapter 2: What recent changes have been made to SNAP benefits?
Many SNAP recipients are parents like Shalise Hooks in Phoenix. She's a widow and unemployed with a 15-year-old son.
And it's hard because he's in high school, and when he comes home, he's hungry. It's okay, Mama. No, it's not okay.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to keep SNAP going. Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Brett Smiley says it never should have taken a lawsuit for that. To threaten the stability of families who are already struggling is wrong.
States must now recalculate to distribute the partial payments, which the administration says could take weeks or even months in some places. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84. He was a hardline conservative, but as Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Dispatch, describes NPR, the former vice president was no fan of President Trump.
He argued for a stronger presidency on the assumption that the presidency would be you know, occupied by a person of real conviction and patriotic principle.
And it's sort of, you know, for him, it has to have felt a little bit like a Frankenstein's monster to have this guy he did not like and thought did not put the country first, using a lot of the arguments and mechanisms that he tried to put in place for his own ends.
In 2024, the former vice president and his daughter, former Representative Liz Cheney, endorsed then Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president. In California today, voters go to the polls to vote on Proposition 50, an initiative that would allow congressional maps in the state to be withdrawn. It's designed to counter similar moves by Republicans in other states.
Here's Steve Futterman.
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