House Republicans Are Still Fixated On Making It Harder For Poor People To Eat
Julia Hudson-Richards Guest Writer/Huffpost 07/05/2018 06:00 am ET
House Republicans have kept busy on the sidelines these past several weeks while most of us trained our focus on the immigration crisis.
On June 19, the GOP proposed a plan to “balance” the country’s budget over nine years that would eviscerate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in order to pay for the more than $1 trillion Republican tax cut that most analysts say will benefit the wealthiest Americans.
Then, two days later, the House voted 213-211 to pass a sweeping farm bill that, if enacted, would institute huge changes to the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ― America’s primary food program that is more commonly referred to as food stamps.
The Senate has its own farm bill, approved on June 28, that is much more bipartisan in agreement and that doesn’t include those aforementioned significant changes to SNAP.
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