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Federal Judges Push Trump Administration to Resume Partial SNAP Payments
The Post Millennial, Approved, National

Federal Judges Push Trump Administration to Resume Partial SNAP Payments

By Thomas Stevenson | The Post Millennial It is not clear how much those getting benefits will receive. The Trump administration on Monday said that there would be partial funding of SNAP after two judges ruled that the administration had to continue to fund SNAP despite the government shutdown.   The partial funding will go forward, but it is not clear how much those getting benefits will receive.   “Per orders issued by the United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, FNS [Food and Nutrition Service] intends to deplete SNAP contingency funds completely and provide reduced SNAP benefits for November 2025,” the Department of Agriculture said in court documents.  There are around $4.6...
Bhagat and Terjesen: To stay competitive, U.S. markets must reward performance—not politics
Approved, National, The Daily Signal

Bhagat and Terjesen: To stay competitive, U.S. markets must reward performance—not politics

By Sanjai Bhagat and Siri Terjesen | The Daily Signal President Donald Trump’s America First Investment Policy touts that welcoming foreign investment and strengthening the United States’ “world-leading private and public capital markets will be a key part of America’s Golden Age.” Of the $124 trillion market capitalization of the global stock market, U.S. stocks account for 49%, and international investors own 17% of those U.S. stocks. By comparison, Chinese stocks comprise 13% of the global stock market, and international equity ownership of Chinese stocks is just 3.4%. Why does the U.S. stock market dominate internationally? Why are international investors attracted to the U.S. stock market? What can U.S. policymakers do to increase the a...

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