'Art of the Deal' guy Trump suddenly can't make deals: NY Times

Source: Raw Story

November 1, 2025 2:00PM ET


President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social Friday that he's asking "the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible," after a federal judge ordered his administration to continue funding the program during the shutdown.

But Trump already knows how to shuffle money, says the New York Times Editorial Board. He’s already been funneling it wherever he wants for months, regardless of rules.

“President Trump has played fast and loose with federal law during the current government shutdown to fund the things he considers important,” the Board said. “He has found ways to pay military service members and F.B.I. agents. He has distributed tariff revenues to women with small children and arranged billions of dollars in financial support for Argentina. He has even ordered the Interior Department to keep federal lands open for hunting.”

But what Trump has refused to fund is as equally telling, wrote the editors. “As the shutdown enters its second month, the president still will not agree to an extension of the federal tax credits that allow millions of Americans to afford health insurance,” the wrote. And up until Friday, the Trump administration declared it would stop distributing food stamps to more than 40 million lower-income families, declining to tap the program’s emergency reserve fund.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/art-of-the-deal-guy-trump-suddenly-can-t-make-deals-ny-times/