{"id":20326,"date":"2025-11-06T14:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20326"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:16:37","slug":"the-millions-of-poor-americans-at-the-mercy-of-the-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20326","title":{"rendered":"The Millions of Poor Americans at the Mercy of the Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The shutdown didn&#8217;t force Trump to not fund food welfare. There was money available, and the administration chose not to fund it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Millions of Poor Americans at the Mercy of the Shutdown\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5AU-yDO35c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shutdown didn&#8217;t force Trump to not fund food welfare. There was money available, and the administration chose not to fund it. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l5AU-yDO35c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,725,1899,1817,1103,170,150],"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-food","tag-food-stamps","tag-government-shutdown","tag-shutdowns","tag-trump","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20327,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions\/20327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}