Disgusting and frightening: “It appears the administration is using those Americans who depend on food assistance as pawns to put more pressure on Democrats to cave to Trump’s will. Today … the New York Times reported that Trump has joked, ‘I’m the speaker and the president,’ and Trump ally Steven Bannon calls Congress ‘the state Duma,’ a reference to Russia’s rubber-stamp assembly.”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-25-2025