GOP Likely to Sneak Cuts to Food Stamps Through the House This Week

[ashling]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/farm-bill-likely-to-sneak-through-house-this-week.html

Remember how the 2018 farm bill got derailed in the House last month, in part over an unrelated immigration dispute? Well, the final day for reconsideration of that negative floor vote on the bill in its current form is Friday. And with the House now poised to hold a Thursday vote on the hard-core Goodlatte immigration measure that the farm bill was held hostage to in May, at least one major obstacle to the Big Ag reauthorization has been removed. The House may vote on the farm bill the very same day.

According to Politico, Mark Meadows, one of the chief obstructors of the farm bill in May, is not only getting out of the way but is trying to round up votes among conservatives who think the bill is too expensive:

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said late Tuesday night that he thinks he’ll be able to deliver enough Freedom Caucus votes to guarantee passage of the farm bill when it’s taken up for a second time.

But there could be a catch, since Meadows also said he had a “few” remaining issues with the bill, reflecting his interest in “limiting subsidy payments to farmers.” Farm bills are like huge balls of yarn: pull one string and the whole thing can quickly come unraveled. Some moderate House Republicans are unhappy with the bill’s funding cuts and enhanced work requirements for SNAP (food stamps) recipients, which have alienated virtually all Democrats.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[jodymarie aimee]

2. won't affect us in Wisconsin

Walker cut FS 8x already...A single adult gets a MAXIMUM of $15 a MONTH...pennies a day. They can't fuck us over anymore than we already are.

[Blue_true]

4. $15 per month?

What does he expect people to do, scrape the oil slick off roads and eat that? The next person that tells me face to face that there is no difference between democrats and republicans is going to get a big wad of my spit in the face, and I am not the type to normally do something like that, I am just tired of the clueless BS.

[jodymarie aimee]

7. we have been the lowest in the country

for 9 years now....

[a kennedy]

5. I ALMOST DESPISE WANKER MORE THEN tRump......

[mopinko]

3. just what the suicidal farmers need.

[Blue_true]

6. Those suicidal farmers fall all over themselves to vote for those assholes.

Why do you think every republican district in any state with some population have either no urban part at all, or a thin sliver of urban coupled with lots of rural space? Republicans know the rural people will vote for them, even as republicans screw those voters.

[mopinko]

8. tru dat. but i have gotten in the habit of eating.

[Blue_true]

9. You will eat anyway. Big AG supplies most of the food.

Guys with 100-400 acres barely register. Plus, one large food processor is aggressively moving to tower farming.

[mopinko]

10. their stupid aside, farmers are a good thing to have.

and he is totally screwing them from several directions. they are now the profession most likely to commit suicide. that is sad to me.
i have pity on them.