USDA moves to tighten restrictions on food stamps

[left-of-center2012]

Source: Daily Journal

The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year’s farm bill didn’t: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday is proposing a rule that would restrict the ability of states to exempt work-eligible adults from having to obtain steady employment to receive food stamps.

The move comes just weeks after lawmakers passed a $400 billion farm bill that reauthorized agriculture and conservation programs while leaving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves roughly 40 million Americans, virtually untouched.

“The president has directed me to propose regulatory reforms to ensure those who are able to work do so in exchange for their benefits,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said during a media call Wednesday. The Trump administration’s effort, while celebrated by some conservatives, has been met with criticism from advocates who say tightening restrictions will result in more vulnerable Americans, including children, going hungry.

Read more: http://www.dailyjournal.net/2018/12/20/us-usda-food-stamps/

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans pissing on Christmas and the poor

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a regular republican doubleheader of deplorability.

[Cryptoad]

2. yes,,,,,

[PeeJ52]

3. How about tightening restriction on...

tainted lettuce and tainted beef? How about a few more inspectors to stop this stuff from getting to the stores and making people sick or even killing them.

[angrychair]

4. Exactly

Regulations on poor = good

Regulations on beef or other products = bad

[PhrankT]

5. Yet, Big Oil has been granted hardship waivers

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016222141

All the while migrant families are locked up & work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance are tightened.
The Actual hardship situations.

We are getting sicker by the week with Trump.

[sakabatou]

6. Trump just loves screwing over the People

[WhiteTara]

7. That's going to hurt Walmart workers very hard.

They depend on food stamps.

[pecosbob]

8. Keep it up and sooner or later the cities will burn

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Most people who can work, do work

Children cannot work.
Disabled people cannot work.
The elderly have already worked.
The VAST majority of people who can work already do. They work in jobs that don't pay enough.

[Igel]

11. So it won't apply to many,

at least not until there's a recession.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. And what if someone cannot find work?

Dumbfuck assholes!

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. If an adult can't find work

they might get their SNAP cut off for themselves, but they'll still get it for their kids.