Trump's GOP is looking to deeply cut food stamps -- hitting his voters hard

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By Andrew Van Dam - The Washington Post/AJC Posted: 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 26, 2018

If Republicans succeed in their multi-front campaign to cut back on food stamps, the burden will fall heaviest on the working-class, rural white voters on whom President Donald Trump has staked the future of their party.

House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation that would require Americans ages 18 through 59 to either work part time or enroll in 20 hours per week of workforce training to receive food stamps.

On the same day, the White House unveiled a proposal to consolidate the public safety net — including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — under a revamped health department. The program, the Post's Amy Goldstein and Caitlin Dewey write, "has an explicit aim of building standardized requirements that people must work or prepare for jobs to qualify for government help."

https://www.myajc.com/news/trump-gop-looking-deeply-cut-food-stamps-hitting-his-voters-hard/TqpPI61YQmFxFZb72vXlMP/

[Iliyah]

1. t-rump will have rallies and blame everything on Democrats and Liberal

and of course they will believe it.

[Matthew28]

2. They won't stop

Until the worker and the poor have no safetynet at all. When they complete their mission people will realize how life was in the 18th and 19th century. The rich will take it all and laugh all the way to the bank.

[Orsino]

3. If you know you're gonna lose power, tank the economy and infrastructure...

...and fundraise off the other party's inability to talk you into fixing the trouble you caused.

[SummerSnow]

4. if it was up to Trump, he would get rid of food stamps all together

and give all of the food stamp recipients a bag of flour, a bag of rice, a bag of beans and powdered milk

[JI7]

5. Watching brown kids suffer will make up for it

[Cicada]

6. White counties will be exempt. Really.

If the unemployment rate exceeds a certain amount a county will be exempt, in some versions. Those are rural white counties. Blacks in cities are in urban counties with lower county wide unemployment rates. They will be cut.