The Trump Administration Will Move Ahead With Its Plan To Kick People Off Of Food Stamps Despite The

[Celerity]

Coronavirus Outbreak

Should you go to work and risk contact with sick people, or stay home and risk losing your SNAP benefits? Many people may face this choice as the White House refuses to postpone its controversial rule change.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/coronavirus-food-stamps-trump-administration

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving ahead with its plan to enact strict work requirements on people who use food stamps despite the coronavirus pandemic — a move that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing their eligibility for the program. People could soon be forced to work public-facing jobs when they should stay home or else risk losing access to the assistance they get to buy food.

The Department of Agriculture confirmed this week it is sticking to its timeline to tighten work requirements starting April 1. People without a disability or children must work 20 hours per week to qualify for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program formerly known as food stamps.

The White House projects 700,000 people would lose SNAP eligibility. Lauren Bauer, a fellow with the Brookings Institution, filed access to information requests for figures from all 50 states and projected the number of people losing assistance would be much higher, at 1.3 million to 1.5 million.

But those projections all came out before the novel coronavirus swept across the United States, causing a wave of self-quarantines and threatening economic downturn. +“That number is going to be much, much higher,” she said. “It’s going to cause harm both to the people who are eligible for SNAP, but it’s also going to cause harm for the economy.”

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[spanone]

1. Disgusting, heartless bastards.

[Doodley]

2. Where is the outrage by lawmakers and media figures?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. NEVER in the history of our country...

has any administration been so deliberately cruel to its people.

NEVER.

We must purge these soulless monsters from our country.

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8. The MAGAts LOVE it! They eat eat it up, like manna from heaven.

It makes their tiny todgers semi-hard.

A fair share of 100 million Rethugs and their fams will literally KILL on Trump's command to keep it that way, even though many of them are in the same piss poor boat as the people they are scientifically trained over a lifetime to hate.

Systemic RW controller:

'Billy Bob, if you let me chop off your little finger with these tin shears, I will then walk over to that black girl and chop of her ENTIRE ARM with that axe sitting next to me.'

Billy Bob:

'Deal!'


Later on, after those horrid deeds are done, there is this exchange:


Billy Bob:

'I brought my brother and my wife, can you do the same deal with them? I just saw two of that black girl's sisters show up.'

Trump supporter complains shutdown is 'not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424263-trump-supporter-complains-shutdown-is-not-hurting-the-people-he

A prison employee in Florida who voted for President Trump argued that Trump is to blame for the current government shutdown.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Crystal Minton told The New York Times in an article published Monday. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

Minton's comments came as part of an expansive report from the newspaper on how the government shutdown, as well as a hurricane, have impacted a Florida town.

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[BigmanPigman]

17. SADISTS!

They are beyond mentally ill or being fucked up. They are true sadists. So are the fundamentalists in his cult who preach the opposite.

[Under The Radar]

4. If Secret Service Agents were truly patriotic

...they would put Rat turds in Trumps pepper shaker.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Looks like the GOP is now going to

Kill off Entitlements before they loose control of the Senate and the White House. As many of us old timers have known for decades,they are going to fulfill the Heritage Foundation of only Wealthy Land owners and Wall Streeters will enjoy the protections of the Federal Government.

[Skittles]

7. people who vote repuke

[world wide wally]

9. Prick

[pat_k]

10. Write letter to Senators and Rep.

Write a short letter about your outrage -- outrage about the requirements themselves, and your horror at the idea these would be enforced in the current crisis.

Convey the need for immediate action to stop enforcement beginning April 1.

Send the letter to both Senators and your Rep as a constituent, whatever party they may be!!

Finding Contact Information

Find your Senators' or Rep's individual site. (usually https://www.{lastname}.senate.gov or https://www.{lastname}.house.gov

If you feel very ambitious, send the letter to the leadership, in their leadership capacity.
http://www.senate.gov/senators/leadership.htm
https://www.house.gov/leadership


If possible, Fax.

Faxes are rarer and therefore pack more punch.

Many fax services offer a free month. This may be a good month to get a trial subscription. I have a feeling this is just one of many actions that demand response to object to, or promote during this crisis.

Finding FAX numbers:

FAX numbers aren't always front and center. In some cases it will be at the bottom of the Senator's or Representative's individual web page. For example: See Washington D.C. Office section at the bottom of this page.

Sometimes you need to navigate a bit, for example, for Cantwell, you need to pick Contact, then Office Locations on the Contact page.

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11. [phone]

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. The daily dose of Trump's DCUP: Dept. of Cruel and Unusual Politics.

Seems to happen several times a week......

[Maru Kitteh]

13. He needs it for his campaign.

The lives of other humans are of no concern to him except in instances where he advocates for their imprisonment or death.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Anything he can do to hurt as many people as possible.

[sakabatou]

15. So the administration wants people to starve to death

[yuiyoshida]

16. IT sure seems Trump is in favor

of Running a country that is either Dead or Dying.... his BASE will hate it he allows them to get the virus....and they will.

[smirkymonkey]

18. I really hate these motherfuckers.

They are beyond evil. Why? Why do this to people? Especially now when people are so vulnerable. They are such sadistic bastards. I can't even say what I want to happen to them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. These assholes have no soul