Senators Sanders and Warren voted to cut Food Stamps. Why?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Because we stupidly allow all sorts of irrelevant bad stuff to get tacked onto good bills

Oregon (I don't know about other states) has a law that states that all bills before the legislature shall deal only with one subject, i.e. no riders allowed.

The "rider" is the chief way in which bad bills get made into law.

For example, somebody might tack a tax break for a specific constituent onto the appropriation for the Department of Veterans' Affairs. It doesn't belong there, it has nothing to do with veterans, but there is nothing to prevent it from being there. Now even Congresscritters who hate the tax break don't dare vote against the bill because then their opponents will accuse them of "being against veterans." The same with the president, who can't veto the whole bill.

This type of scheming occurs more often than we think.

If Congresscritters were forced to vote on a separate bill to cut food stamps, the nefariousness of the Republicans would be too obvious.