GOP plan takes food stamps away from 2 million Americans in need

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By Tommy Christopher - September 12, 2018

Senior citizens and children get hit the hardest, according to a new study.

Trump and Republicans have spent months trying to kick needy Americans off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. And they are poised to “succeed” in stripping crucial nutrition aid from 2 million households, according to a new study released Thursday.

Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research organization, analyzed how certain provisions of the new Farm Bill in the U.S. House would affect eligibility for food stamps.

About 1 in 11 households receiving SNAP would lose benefits, the shocking study found. And the pain resulting from the Republican-led House bill would hit vulnerable Americans hardest.

Of the nearly 2 million households poised to lose SNAP benefits, “34 percent (677,000 households) include seniors, 23 percent (469,000 households) include children, and 11 percent (214,000 households) include a person with a disability,” the study found.

And that’s not even the whole picture of how many low-income Americans will be denied food assistance thanks to Trump and congressional Republicans.

The study’s authors told The New York Times that those 2 million households who would immediately lose benefits don’t include the 1.2 million Americans whom the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in May would be thrown off of SNAP by 2028, thanks to the work requirement and income requirements that Trump and House Republicans have been pushing.

https://shareblue.com/gop-plan-cuts-food-stamps-2-million-americans/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. How christian of them...it burns me that you have multiple pastors and preachers go the WH...

and stand behind rump while all of this is going on. Basically taking food off the table.

No wonder I don't respect any religious outfits any longer. I know that this action of denying food to the needy is not reflective of all of these religious denominations but it is getting harder and harder for me to accept that these people are actually human and even care about anyone, but themselves.

Disgusting and should be pinned permanently onto the republicans and their so called 'religious' buddies, who are in fact, are only religious in name only, and are not truly religious in nature.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. This will cost lives.

One of my oldest friends is a fully disabled veteran who relies on Food Stamps to survive. Any further reduction in his food budget and he’ll not be able to make it anymore. He’s told me he’s just going to kil himself if it gets much worse.

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3. We're running a trillion dollar deficit this year

So we just gotta take food out of people's mouths! Where else is the money going to come from?