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The families going hungry because of Trumps food stamp cuts
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/families-going-hungry-because-trump-090040479.html
PHOENIX The line outside a suburban office building was already 15 people long when Tiffany Hudson showed up with her 7-year-old son cradling his blanket. It was 7 a.m. At the front of the line was a woman hooked up to an oxygen tank who had arrived 90 minutes before the building opened.
Like others there, Husdon had come to the Arizona Department of Economic Security office in Surprise, a Phoenix suburb, to find out why the food stamp benefits for her and her two children were cut off after the state began implementing new eligibility requirements under President Donald Trumps big, beautiful bill.
Its been really hard. Weve been going to food banks every week, Hudson said. Shes a single mom who had received about $600 a month in food assistance to supplement her income as a part-time caretaker. Her benefits stopped without warning three months ago. Were eating less, were eating more frozen stuff.
Hudson and her children have been swept up in a wave of new restrictions and bureaucratic hurdles that have begun to ripple across the country as a result of Trumps marquee legislation, which he signed into law with great fanfare nearly a year ago during a Fourth of July celebration. The law extends tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations while cutting $187 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, often referred to as food stamps, over the next decade. Now, the consequences of those cuts are showing up on Americans kitchen tables.
MustLoveBeagles
(17,147 posts)Cha
(320,411 posts)enjoying their fucking billions while PEDO scarfs more $$$$$$ for his fucking gold-plated Shit.
If I were a billionaire, I wouldn't stand for that Fascsit Shit.
Please VOTE.. for Dems!
oasis
(53,913 posts)Shameful!!!
Cha
(320,411 posts)of Filthy Extravagance in the 18th century.
And, here we are with a Pehophile acting like a Marie Antoinette, daring anyone to do anything about it.
BattleRow
(2,676 posts)He DOES adore pomp,ya know.
KentuckyWoman
(7,417 posts)That palace ballroom, black granite walkway, marble bathrooms, and $13 Million for a $3 Million repair job on the Trump pool won't pay for itself. I mean... you know... asking kids to eat once a week isn't asking that much.
Sarcasm of course... MAGA's values are so twisted that none of really knows where to begin....
Fil1957
(847 posts)folks, we're in for a long nasty ride.
BattleRow
(2,676 posts)Miles Archer
(24,162 posts)WE KNEW that the primary carnage from that bill was going to hit AFTER the midterms. I was DELIBERATELY PLANNED that way.
And, of course, the intention was for American voters to elect and re-elect Republicans BEFORE they got a 2x4 blow to their skulls.
AND, when it HITS, they'll blame Biden and Obama and then voters will elect more Republicans to "save" them.