Explaining the Right is a weekly series that looks at what the right wing is currently obsessing over, how it influences politics—and why you need to know.

Democrats have been sounding the alarm over the last week after the Trump administration made clear that it would not act to provide emergency funding to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is set to lose funding in November.

A coalition of Democratic leaders from 25 states and Washington, D.C., sued the administration Tuesday, arguing that it’s illegal to cut off an estimated 42 million people from food aid.

On the surface, the decision to hurt some of the most economically vulnerable Americans seems tone deaf, even for the right. Historically, the GOP has at least tried to disguise the cruelty of its polici

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