The Trump administration plans to gut food stamps, hitting red states hardest

[TheBlackAdder]

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3.6 million Americans will lose food stamps under a regulatory maneuver nobody in Congress likes. 1.9 million of them live in Trump country.

One in every twelve people who receives food stamps nationwide will lose them under the policy — some 3.6 million people, according to new analysis by Mathematica, the private policy analysis firm the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has relied upon for the past 40 years.

“I was surprised by the extent of the impact in some of the southern states, such as Texas,” Mathematica senior research programmer Sarah Lauffer said. The impact was always going to be severe in states that apply the current rules in the most generous fashion, but southern states have generally not extended their eligibility lines quite as far. Despite that, Lauffer said, her team found “34% of elderly Texans receiving benefits will lose them through this rule.”

Almost 400,000 people in Texas currently receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits would lose them. Another 328,000 in Florida, 200,000 in New York, 97,000 in Georgia, and 176,000 in Washington state face cuts, to name just a few standouts.

Almost one in five Wisconsin households currently getting help with their groceries will lose the benefit, as well as 16% of such households in Oregon, Nevada, Iowa, and Delaware. Two of every 13 SNAP households in Minnesota and Texas will have to find food money elsewhere.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-trump-administration-plans-to-gut-food-stamps-hitting-red-states-hardest/

Gotta free up that money for the next GOP cash grab in early 2020.

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[tanyev]

1. But I just wanted President Trump to take away food stamps from everybody else!

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Everyone else being those illegals.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. The man of the people.

My guess is 75% of the Deplorables that are in this group will vote for him again. You just cant overcome stoopid.

[Quemado]

7. +1 Trump voters who lose their food stamps won't hold it against Trump.

To them, Trump is a hero because he took food stamps away from "those other people".

[yortsed snacilbuper]

14. ditto

[NewJeffCT]

15. agreed

I've seen a few Trump supporters say that they know Trump will screw them over, like every politician before him..., but, they know that Trump will screw over the "other guy" even more than them, so it makes it okay. "other guy" meaning anybody that is not a straight white male.

[bdamomma]

19. it's affecting the farmers

to the point of them committing suicide. Sad really sad what is happening and we need to eradicate this disease.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. "You just cant overcome stoopid."

You either destroy it or it destroys you.

Which is it going to be?

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. Perchance marginalize it to where it becomes inconsequential??

[FiveGoodMen]

17. I thought that's what we'd been doing since the civil war.

Turns out, all that time we were losing ground.

[Newest Reality]

3. That's the plan, Man!

Less food for more people than ever! Considering, that, not only are we talking about many people who are the working poor and can't survive on the meager, "managing" wages, but I think that children still comprise almost half of the SNAP recipients over all.

So, kids, get a jab! No free food for you little, needy advantage takers!

I keep wondering how the grocery store lobby is going to react to this, though? It seems like they will be taking a big hit due to the starvation budget.

Also, What will Walmart and other chains do with weak, emaciated workers if taxpayers are not subsidizing their slave wages?

[Firestorm49]

4. Tax breaks for the rich, and a fist up the ass of those in need.

Trump’s twisted, maniacal America.

[Newest Reality]

5. I think

the entire ReFascist Party holds those values very dear.

Think of the potential unrest that may be fomented by increasing hunger and potential starvation?

That will work out well. Take a hammer and pound on the fingers of people clinging to the edge of a precipice. Sure.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Because the comforts of the rich depend on an abundant supply of the poor

(Voltaire)

[New Breed Leader]

8. "He's not hurting the people he should be hurting".

Remember when that white woman trump supporter said that?

[a kennedy]

11. How can he do this?? isn't there something congress, at least the House can do to prevent this??

[apnu]

12. They voted for him. Their eyes were wide open.

They can reap what they sowed.

[Brainfodder]

16. The wall of deceit is quite expensive!

[bdamomma]

18. I truly think

they want to minimize the population and start their own Aryan race. Fuck that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. GOPers take school money, food money, health care money to pay billionaires