Trump GOP Announces Plan To STRIP 10 Million People Of Food Stamps. [View all]

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Poor and disabled Americans will die if Republicans get their way. Trump’s GOP just announced a budget to cut aid to the poor and needy by billions of dollars and take food from 10 million needy Americans.

The Republican budget, crafted by the man with no soul, Paul Ryan, takes a chainsaw to Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants, Supplemental Security Income, and anything else that makes life more tolerable for the poor.

The proposals would remove 14 to 20 million people off the Medicaid rolls and 10 million people off food stamps. In fact, 62% of the cuts from the budget are to programs that assist the poor and moderate-income Americans.

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This cruelty by the federal and state governments towards the needy will result in many Americans going to bed hungry, unable to afford a college education, and without shelter. To sum it up, Congress will fail nearly 100 million Americans for a larger defense budget.

Robert Greenstein, the founder and president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Washington’s leading advocate for poor and low-income Americans, said the following:

“I’ve been working on these issues since 1972. This is by far the gravest threat to the safety net, and to low-income people, that I’ve seen in my close to half a century of working on these issues. I think there’s a potential in the first seven months, by the August recess, for Congress to pass policies that do more to increase poverty and hardship and widen inequality than we’ve seen in half a century.”

http://www.learnprogress.org/gop-strip-food-stamps/