The GOP wants to make it harder for low-income Americans to access food. Read the latest from besslevin:
Earlier this week, the Minnesota Senate passed a bill providing free breakfast and lunch to all schoolchildren in the state. Obviously, that was good news, but it didn’t come without resistance from the state’s Republican senators, 26 of whom voted against the bill and one of whom argued that because he has never personally met anyone who doesn’t have enough food to eat,
. Was this a shocking display of cruelty? Yes. Is such cruelty of pervasive feature of the Republican Party? Also yes.that congressional Republicans have recently “signaled they want to cut federal programs that help low-income Americans buy food and go to the doctor.” On Tuesday, Representativeintroduced legislation to expand “work requirements” for eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a.k.a. SNAP, a.k.a. food stamps.
As for the cuts Republicans are calling for, HuffPost also points out that tightening “eligibility for a relatively small number of SNAP recipients wouldn’t have much effect on the federal budget, since the entire SNAP program amounts to about 2% of U.S. annual spending.” And yet, you know who it would have a big effect on? The people who would suddenly be unable to eat.
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