Are the Republicans Sneakily Trying to Cut Food Stamps? The House GOP’s farm bill would change how SNAP benefits are evaluated, and Democrats are furious.
https://newrepublic.com/article/181702/republican-farm-bill-snap-fight
Are the Republicans Sneakily Trying to Cut Food Stamps? The House GOP’s farm bill would change how SNAP benefits are evaluated, and Democrats are furious.
https://newrepublic.com/article/181702/republican-farm-bill-snap-fight
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Republicans cannot enjoy a meal unless they know somebody else is starving, even better if it’s a child.
Look, the GOP hates poor people. It shouldn’t be shocking that they’re pulling this.
Of course they are. And look at all those who are on SNAP and Medicaid who vote for these toolbags
The allowance per day is laughable. It’s impossible to shop and prepare a decent meal for that pittance. Plus the formula to qualify has changed.
Republicans hate middle class and poor people.
The republicans will keep thousands of people hungry if one person that really doesn’t deserve benefits get them, and the democrats will feed thousands in spite of a few non deserving recipients getting some too.
Republicans are Always trying to kill Food Stamps
All right we got to figure out how to pay the farmers again all these subsidies we pay them hey let’s f*** off the poor people
Will it hurt the poors? If yes, then that’s exactly what republicans are trying to do
They’ve literally said that’s the goal multiple times. Believe them.
Republicans have ideas that hurt poor people. Why would this country be better with more people starving? These people should try and live on what they propose, just so they understand what they’re proposing. Vote these people out, they don’t care about the working class. If they want less people on SNAP benefits then raise the minimum wage.
Republicans are sadistic and vile creatures.
If there is a way to make people go hungry the GOP will be there.💩
They’ve been doing this for years. It’s curious how they’re so Christian but in practice they are adherents of social Darwinism.
Matthew 25:35: Feed the hungry.
MAGA CINOs: That’s too woke!
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What they are doing is trying to make democrats vote against it.
Say this louder for the people in the back before all the struggling families start blaming this BS on Biden
Fun fact: dead people can’t vote.
Sneakily? They straight up say it. To our faces lol.
Sneakily?
Republicans try not to hate poor people challenge: impossible
On a serious note, there are some people that take advantage of the SNAP program, but there are also many families that would starve to death without it. Any changes to this program need to be carefully planned and executed to protect the families that desperately need it to survive. I have less than zero faith that Republicans would handle this program with the care that it deserves. In fact, they’d likely target the families that actually need it.
You would think republicans were getting a cut of ripping off the poor…oh yeah donors.
The cruelty is the point.
Because every dollar republican swine can get away from hungry children is a dollar they can cram into the already full pockets of their billionaire puppeteers.
GOP is evil
How is the slaughterhouse supposed to find 10-year-olds to hire if their parents are just *giving* them food?
Sneakily? Some reporter hasn’t been paying attention since before the Reagan administration.
Ironic considering that SNAP benefits US farmers and food producers
When have they not tried to cut Food Stamps.
As I posted on X, “SNAP is good for local economies – each dollar in federally funded SNAP benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity.”
Source: https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/positive-effect-snap-benefits-participants-communities
Good for business & good for people. It actually gives a return on taxpayer dollars. What’s the problem? Oh right! Can’t have freeloaders or stuff like that. People won’t work! What about all the people at Walmart who are told to apply for SNAP? Hmmm? Amazon? Please.
Wasn’t there like a trail of stamps leading to the capital?
Fuck the GOP, fuck Republicans, and fuck the democrats for letting those fucking traitor republicans get away with all this criminal shit.
Can tell the guy in the thumbnail never misses a meal.
Maybe they are going to increase minimum wage so people won’t need the assistance? /s
Are they really being all that sneaky about it, though? They literally have been railing against it for decades.
Last time I checked, each dollar spent on food stamps returned $1.84 in boosted GDP.
The only thing worse than punching down on the already beleaguered poor unnecessarily is being fiscally stupid about it at the same time.
“sneakily”? no. It’s been pretty obvious for the last few decades…
This kind of reporting is what’s wrong with the USA: It makes big long term problems seem isolated and sudden
They’ve not so sneakily been at it for decades.
No, it’s no secret that Republicans do not hold a single position or policy that will help or benefit the American people (poor or middle class). The policies and programs that *do* exist, they’re actively and deliberately destroying.
Didn’t several of the red states refuse federal food stamp assistance for needy children to benefit and provide lunch for them during the summer when school is out? It wouldn’t have cost them a dime.
They’d rather see the kids working in a meat packing plant for summer vacay and are creating/loosening child labor laws that would allow them to do just that.
Of course they are.
They acquire another dollar for themselves by taking it out of a child’s meal.
Under Project 2025, all farm subsidies will no longer exist. This basically means no more family farms, and all farming done by corporate farms. This is part of that.
Sneakily? They have been completely forthcoming that this is something they would like to do.
Selfish and unintelligent Republicans making it harder to be an American. Checks out.