Republicans Pitch Cuts To Federal Food Benefits

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Republicans Pitch Cuts To Federal Food Benefits
The debt ceiling standoff will likely include a fight over “work requirements” for low-income households.
Arthur Delaney
Mar 14, 2023, 12:52 PM EDT


WASHINGTON — All year, Republicans have said they want President Joe Biden to agree to major spending cuts without saying what cuts they want.

In recent days, however, Republicans have signaled they want to cut federal programs that help low-income Americans buy food and go to the doctor.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would expand “work requirements” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal policy often known as food stamps that helps more than 20 million households buy groceries.

The program already limits benefits for able-bodied adults without dependents who fail to work at least 20 hours per week, though there are a variety of exceptions and states often waive the requirement. Roughly 13% of households served by SNAP contained able-bodied childless adults under age 50, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Roughly a quarter of such households earned money from working.

Johnson’s proposal would reduce state discretion over eligibility rules and expand the definition of able-bodied adults without dependents to include people in their 50s and early 60s; the current cutoff is 49.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-food-stamp-cuts_n_641094b4e4b0fef1524070e7

[quaint]

1. So sick how they go after the most vulnerable.

[Lovie777]

2. That's the GQP goal........

[SheltieLover]

5. Precisely!

[Walleye]

3. They don't like poor people and they need to punish them

[Faux pas]

4. Who

will be their slaves after they've starved all the helpless, defenseless and poor to death?

[ananda]

6. Nope. No fight at all.

No negotiating with terrrorists.

[Freethinker65]

7. Lots of low wage service jobs go un filled. Fill them with 60 year olds that need to eat.

Honestly, instead of a blanket work for benefits policy based on age, how about go after those actually committing fraud...BUT, go after fraud not only in social services benefits, but tax fraud committed by wealthy individuals/corporations. Fraud in loan and grant subsidizes to businesses and individuals that lie. Fraud in Government sweetheart contract deals to political friends and donors.

[Midnight Writer]

8. Republicans are worried the USA will reverse its drop in life expectancy.

They seem determined to increase COVID mortality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, gun mortality, pollution mortality, teen suicide, and domestic terrorism.