45 million Americans rely on food stamps. Trump wants to gut the program.

[DonViejo]

The administration’s budget proposal would cut SNAP spending by a quarter.

Updated by Julia [e-mail]@voxmedia.com May 25, 2017, 10:47am EDT

Trump’s new budget proposal has been panned for its magical thinking on economic growth and sloppy accounting errors.

One of the big cuts proposed would also take a sledgehammer to a safety net program that’s been remarkably effective.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has been helping keep Americans from going hungry since the 1960s. Formerly known as food stamps, the program began as a pilot under President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as part of the war on poverty. Today, SNAP is the biggest and most important nutrition assistance program: About 45 million Americans living below the poverty line — nearly half of them children — rely on SNAP to purchase food.

If Trump had his way, though, the number of SNAP recipients would soon be drastically cut. The administration’s first comprehensive budget proposal would trim SNAP spending by $191 billion over the next decade — which is about a quarter of the program’s funding. (The program costs the federal government $80 billion a year, which is a large amount of money — but a relatively small fraction of the budget.)

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/23/15675892/food-stamps-snap-evidence-health-poverty-hunger

[dalton99a]

1. Many of them voted for him.

[Zambero]

3. A stunningly low recognition of causes and effects

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Elections do in fact matter. But those particular voters will not be taking Der Leader and his poison pen to task for any legislative misfortunes that might befall them. It will be the "worthless" Democrats' fault for "not having their back".

[Drahthaardogs]

6. Oh well.

Elections have consequences

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Just think what we could do with that $191 billion!

We need to help the 1% - they are hurting!

[L. Coyote]

4. Destroying the Republican Party base, and the 1%'ers seem to be enjoying it.

Perhaps their higher goal, breaking up the USA and stealing everything, is more important than the voters.

[beachbum bob]

5. I would say walmart may have some input on this....looking at

Loss revenues in the 100's of millions...