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Trump Admin Moves Forward With Stripping 3,000,000 Low Income Americans of Nutritional Assistance
Unfortunately, we've written about nutritional assistance several times on Smart Dissent. Otherwise known as 'food stamps,' it's been necessary to add post to our database as Republicans, including the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Sonny Perdue, seek to harm the most vulnerable people in our society. Meanwhile, they proudly hand out corporate welfare to massive corporations and uber wealthy people.
Trump administration moved to end food stamp benefits for 3.1 million people.... The proposed rule curtailing food assistance, announced Tuesday [7/23/19], drew a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called it an “act of staggering callousness.”
It should be unacceptable that in a country as prosperous as the U.S., millions struggle to put food on the table. The Trump Administration's response? Make it even harder. After giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy, Trump is pulling the rug out from under families in need.
“This proposal perfectly showcases the Republicans’ cynical special interest agenda that gives billion-dollar handouts to big corporations and the wealthy few, and then steals from children, veterans, seniors and working families to make up the difference,” Pelosi said.
Conservatives have long sought cuts in the federal food assistance program for the poor and disabled. House Republicans tried to impose similar restrictions on the food assistance last year....
About 9% of all households currently receiving food stamps and 13.2% of all currently participating households with at least one elderly member will lose the assistance, the Agriculture Department projected....
Trump and the Republican Party gave a tax cut to Wall Street and the wealthy at the expense of everyone else and now they want to take away food from working families — away from children. This is shameful.
As of April, 36 million Americans received food stamps, with an average monthly benefit of $121 per person. Cutting back automatic enrollment would have a substantial impact, mostly hitting recipients who receive lower monthly benefits and disproportionately affecting working families with children trying to climb out of poverty....
For more details on the rule changes to kick people off the program, see our post from June 11, 2019: http://smartdissent.com/article/trump-admin-seeks-change-definition-poverty-strip-low-income