New York City mayor says deal will allow bodegas and convenience stores across the country more time to comply
Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, has struck a deal with Donald Trump to secure a 90-day delay on new rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), so that bodegas and corner stores across the country have time to comply.
The extension, Mamdani said, starts Friday as a result of conversations he had with Trump and Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary.
The new guidelines, implemented by the US agriculture department, which retailers would have had to meet by 4 November, require stores to stock at least seven varieties within each staple food category: dairy, grains, protein and fruits or vegetables. Retailers would also have to ensure that they offer perishable items in three of the staple food categories.
The new guidelines threw the lives of “more than a million New Yorkers” and “tens of milllions more across America” into “chaos”, the mayor said at a press conference on Friday.
Guy is more of a leader than Schumer and Jeffereies combined.
He does seem to be able to get shit done and act like a leader much betterthan our current gerontocracy. I wonder what his next step will be?
That is such a low bar though lol
Right? I’ve known dogs that make better leaders than them.
At one point my brother’s family had 6 dogs, but their first was solidly the Alpha Bitch and all the others knew it. She may have been a toy breed, but she had more spine than Schumer and Jeffries combined.
That low bar is considered a high bar for the average pro-corporate-feudalism shitlib who thinks Schumer or Jeffries are anything but corrupt criminals.
You’re not wrong
Trump loves to dispense favors and punishments at his pleasure.
Like any good fascist.
Ironically, Trump is one of Mamdani’s biggest fans.
Feels like I’m watching Mussolini put on a Che Gueverra tshirt
Well, Mamdani is a handsome fella, and we all know what Trump’s like with those. I’m willing to bet his magnificent new 'stache draws Trump in like one of those magnets he doesn’t know how works.
Good plan. In 90 days the Democrats can undo the requirement.
WTF
Trump is trying to hurt people, but is easily influenced.
Should not be a surprise by this point.
Trump loves Mamdani which seems baffling at first glance.
But then you realize that more than anything Trump just wants to be popular and be surrounded by popular people. So Mamdani, who is popular, blows a little sunshine up Trump’s ass and he’s like putty in his hands.
Beyond this, especially given his recent remarks, he seems to like attractive (and successful) men. Not going to theorise on repressed homosexuality or anything, on this, just staring an observation.
So it makes sense that he’d want to be in favour of Mamdani - he’s attractive, he’s successful, he’s liked, so he’s trying to suck up to him.
It probably also doesn’t hurt that he’s a New Yorker, and not being accepted by New York might be what stings Trump the most.
Not going to theorise on repressed homosexuality or anything
No no, of course not. Apropos nothing in particular, does anybody else recall that time when Trump gave a blowjob to his mike live on air? Or that time he was obsessed with the size of that golf player’s penis, or…
Bubba, if you’re listening…
All those years of blowing saxophones weren’t for nothing.
It’s extremely surprising when the DSA is influencing him…
