The Smashmouth Sequence
The Shutdown Is Over. Democrats Just Haven’t Stopped Bleeding Yet. They’ve already lost. Now it’s just pain compliance. In four days, 42 million Americans-17 million of them children-will lose their food stamps. The USDA’s contingency fund is legally barred from covering November SNAP benefits, and states are already drafting emergency plans that will collapse under the weight of demand. That is the SNAP cliff, now 96 hours away. Meanwhile, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)-the largest union of federal workers, representing 820,000 veterans, caregivers, and essential personnel-delivered a stinging rebuke of the Democratic strategy yesterday: “Both political parties have made…