unified Democratic message until a 2028 pres. nominee is chosen & sets the overall direction for the party. & even then, individual candidates will stray from it. This is the way American politics works. It's like the @nytimes.com & @nytopinion.nytimes.com understand nothing about elections. 2/2

I’m not. It’s their business model. Everything is always bad news for Dems, even when it’s not.

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds