Posted on 05/24/2024 10:17:55 AM PDT by RandFan
Democrats and Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee sparred over food aid on Thursday at the markup of the chamber’s version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus farm bill.
The issue set off partisan fireworks at the contentious session, during which representatives from both sides of the aisle took to the dais to extol the virtues of bipartisanship while accusing their opposite numbers of throwing those values in the trash.
“I served for 26 years in the United States military, oftentimes below the poverty level and using these programs,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) said. “So I will not be lectured to by people who are saying that I’m trying to cut these benefits. It’s not true and it’s disingenuous.”
But, he added, “speaking about the waste, fraud, abuse that absolutely exists in these programs — every single dollar that goes to waste, fraud, abuse for these SNAP programs is a dollar that cannot go to feed a hungry child.”
Republicans “cannot have it both ways,” Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) shot back. ”I have heard my colleagues say that this is not a SNAP cut. But dozens of outside experts disagree.”
If the freeze to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, coverage was being used to pay for anything, Carbajal argued, then that money had to constitute a reduction somewhere else. “If the committee’s considering it a paid-for then that is funding you are taking away from hungry families.”
The proposed legislation, unveiled by Committee Chair Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) last week, would draw on SNAP as a source of funds to direct subsidies to commodity farmers, largely a few thousand growers of rice, cotton and peanuts.
The measure would not reduce current SNAP levels. But it would freeze the current list of covered products, and the values allowed to purchase them, at their present levels — though these would still be able to increase with inflation.
This would make it far harder for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to add new items, or — as the Biden administration did in 2021 — to offer more support to, for example, buy more fruits and vegetables.
I have difficulty finding the wording in the Constitution that authorizes food stamps.
Democrats and Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee sparred over food aid on Thursday at the markup of the chamber’s version of the $1.5 trillion omnibus farm bill.
We paid tribute to the Barbery Pirates.............for awhile.
What happens when the money runs out..
We paid tribute to the Barbery Pirates.............for awhile.
Oh.....that's right......"women and children will suffer".
NOT American children, but the imported Democrats and Gimmedats that are flooding the schools, hospitals, Benefits programs, and Voter rolls (mail-ins, especially).
What happens when the money runs out..
A Lib will toss out the “general welfare” part of the Constitution. Yeah, they know they are being disingenuous, but it serves the purpose of the moment.
The poor are FAT!
(What happens when the money runs out..)
Total anarchy across the nation.
The way I figure it, the $34 million in waste, fraud and abuse EVERY DAY is a small price to pay for being able to provide soda, chips, beef jerky and fast food to the deserving poor. /s
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4224015-fraud-is-gobbling-up-one-fifth-of-snap-benefits-congress-must-act-to-stop-it/amp/?nxs-test=amp
or the ability to buy junk food and choice cuts of meat with it.
what happen to government cheese and a wic like food stamp program where you are limited in what you can buy.
$1.5 Trillion
Country has maybe 20 years left.
The debt mathematically can’t be paid. Impossible
But dozens of outside experts disagree.
What makes them experts is they agree with the Democrats.
This SNAP EBT money is nothing but big bucks to grocery stores that charge double plus the price of some smaller stores. People on welfare dont look at price. I shop around and can find a ribeye stake for 4.99 sometimes. At bigger stores they are 12.99+ That goes for most meats. Its corporate welfare. It barley trickles down to the farmer. But the big meat packers love it too.
Another trillion and a half ?Whoa baby way too much !
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