Republicans Target Federal Anti-Hunger Program as They Prepare Trump Tax Package

Limiting funding for SNAP could help defray the costs of President Trump’s tax plans, but could result in millions of low-income families losing access to aid.

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As part of their forthcoming package to cut taxes and reduce federal spending, Republicans proposed expanding the existing work requirements to cover food stamp recipients up to age 64, including those with children who are at least age seven.

That amounts to a significant expansion of existing law, which currently only requires beneficiaries up to age 54 to work in exchange for SNAP, and excludes those with dependents. Studying similar Republican proposals in recent years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that work requirements and other rules could result in millions of enrollees losing access to the program. (The budget watchdog has not yet released an analysis on the party’s newest proposal.)

Republicans also proposed limiting nutrition aid to only U.S. citizens and green card holders. States would be required for the first time to contribute funding to the federal food stamp program beginning in 2028. And the Republican proposal would try to limit future administrations from boosting the benefits that low-income Americans receive in nutrition aid.

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[+] ArgumentativeMonotheist@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think it's cowardice, there's just no where to go. It's not like if an American travels to China they can get a job in the field that that they are already in and make a decent living.

[–] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

wow i never thought about going somewhere else. wtf no one told me that was an option! let me just take my 0 dollars of disposable income to buy a plane ticket. but first let me use my 0 days off to apply for residency in another country, who will surely accept me- someone who just works a regular labor job and has no college credentials, like a lot of americans who would be better off in another country

[–] IloveSeagulls@hexbear.net 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

THANK YOU!!! People fucking love to say things like "just leave the country" and not provide any further details like "where a person with no university degree can get a work permit" because a regular passport does not allow that! Kind of an important thing to get get sent back to this garbage heap. And under the table work for cash does not count. Never mind that unless there is a complete collapse no one from the USA will ever be able to apply for asylum elsewhere and even then I would still doubt it. Even in the skilled trades, you are still unwanted by the rest of the world. If I could just sell everything and leave it would have been done a long time ago.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I've worked with people that came to Europe by boat and eventually regularised their situation here in France. I myself did 5 years in the FFL to secure my citizenship. It's not supposed to be easy, but I guess you're not desperate enough (which is great, means things aren't that fugged yet and you can still plan ahead!). But I'm NGL, the situation can feel/is(?) very claustrophobic and unsolvable, I hope you find somewhere safe to be in whether that's inside or outside the US.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I myself did 5 years in the FFL to secure my citizenship

Fun way to admit you were a fascist shock trooper

[–] MizuTama@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

Classic:

Citizen: I'm poor and lack social mobility

Enlightened individual: Have you considered helping kill members of the Global South?

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

whoa yikes. I wouldn't just go around admitting that.

EDIT: Now that they're banned I guess they won't be responding to my replies in the current Hasan Piker thread. Too bad :|

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Like admitting you were some kind of normal troop would give you the ick as is but admitting you're French Foreign Legion would be the rough equivalent as admitting you're Army special operations command Rangers. You're the French equivalent of Tier 2 spec ops.

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah, also, talk about not reading the room, with Ibrahim Traore making big waves and things really starting to turn around for people in the Sahel region while they kick out the ghastly French, lol

Probably that user's FFL friends are helping out with all the assassination attempts on Traore

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s almost damn near impossible to leave this backwater shithole. Especially if you’re poor.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@hexbear.net 1 points 9 hours ago

Maybe you'll even get poorer and it's safer and comfier to be poor in Denmark, for instance, than in the states? But yes, you're right, it can seem impossible and I would be in a bit of a obfuscating panic if I were in that situation. I should've been a bit more thoughtful with my first comment, my bad.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The US is a sea of awfulness. Time and again - I post but I don't leave a top-level comment. All that comes into my head is undeniable fedposting. And I'd never do that.

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If they do this it'll affect my elderly friend who's been down on his luck and has been struggling to find a job. None of this shit is a surprise but it still really sucks. :[

I've been trying to help get him on better footing, and when we finally got him on food stamps it was pretty much lifechanging for all the struggle he's been through.