Biden Abandons Trump-Era Cuts to Food Stamps

[applegrove]

Biden Abandons Trump-Era Cuts to Food Stamps

April 1, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 33 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/01/biden-abandons-trump-era-cuts-to-food-stamps/

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CBS News: “A Trump-era plan to cut food stamps is now off the table after the Biden administration said it is abandoning a previous plan to tighten work requirements for working-age adults without children. Those restrictions were projected to deny federal food assistance benefits to 700,000 adults, a proposal that had drawn strong condemnation from anti-hunger advocates.”

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[ellie]

1. Good.

What the hell kind of country lets its citizens go hungry?

[niyad]

7. A sick and twisted, evil one.

[C Moon]

11. The USA, Inc.

[DSandra]

18. A country that doesn't reign in its sociopaths and other evil

[XanaDUer2]

2. We love you Joe!

There is so much to unfuck

[dalton99a]

3. Excellent. Get rid of Trump's cruel, sadistic shit.

[George II]

4. He just keeps plugging away, doing what a President does. "Sleepy Joe" my butt!

[Biophilic]

8. Nah, Sleepy Joe is our secret weapon. He is the future's secret weapon.

He is the people's secret weapon. Go Sleepy Joe. They never saw you coming.

[Wounded Bear]

5. K&R...nt

[zipplewrath]

6. Both parties the same

As much as I am often critical of democratic administrations, this is where the rubber hits the road and why the accusation that "both parties are the same" just isn't true. This is how they are not. This is basic "shouldn't get credit for doing the obvious" kinda of democratic boilerplate. This is the minimum one would expect from a democratic president. And it is that "boilerplate/minimum" that is the reason both parties "aren't the same". We can and should expect "more" from democrats, but it also true that we have to remember that electing democrats over republicans is at the very least because this kind of thing will always be true.

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. People seem to think that food stamps give the recipients a lavish menu.

I know a person or two that has had to collect the benefit who would disabuse you of that notion. Less than $4 a day is not living high off the hog.

[70sEraVet]

10. Isn't it shameful

That 'anti-hunger advocates' and 'Christians' are TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS!

[left-of-center2012]

12. I've received $25 a month in food stamps (EBT) the past couple years

I'm 74 and on Social Security ($1,200 a month).

I got a letter a couple months that I was receiving a 15% increase in EBT but I'm still getting that $25.

Was hoping for that extra $3.75

[applegrove]

13. Vibes to you that you get it.

[Deminpenn]

15. For the richest country in the world,

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that is so penurious.

[left-of-center2012]

16. "penurous"

[bronxiteforever]

14. Kick and recommend. N/t

[Hortensis]

17. Good. Guess "abandoning" bad garbage is government-speak.

[DSandra]

19. Work requirements when employment is not a right is inhumane and cruel

The Great Recession and the Pandemic have proven that work is not plentiful enough to be relied on and insisting on so is cruel and inhumane, and is punishing not only the individual for things outside of their control, but loved ones who are affected by the suffering of the individual.

If right wingers want work requirements, they should also want to breakup big corporations and big tech since a lot of jobs have been lost due to far fewer corporations being in an industry than before. Big tech is also continually destroying jobs in the name of progress and competition.

[Deminpenn]

21. Lots of businesses don't want to hire people who

have non-physical diseases like ADHD, Aspergers, chronic fatigue, autoimmune and other conditions that you can't readily "see".

[Judi Lynn]

20. Such sensible and honorable news! Thank you, applegrove. ⭐️