Posted on 05/25/2025 11:12:34 PM PDT by RandFan
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the House GOP’s proposed changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Sunday, arguing that states will better administer food stamp benefits if they have to shoulder more of the costs.
“The states are not properly administering this because they don’t have enough skin in the game,” Johnson told CBS’s Margaret Brennan in an interview on “Face the Nation.”
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the GOP-controlled House narrowly passed early Thursday morning after an overnight session, calls for the federal share of SNAP costs to drop from the current 100 percent level to 95 percent in 2028.
States could be forced to pick up more of the tab after that based on their payment error rates.
“We are not cutting SNAP,” Johnson said. “We’re working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program, reported last year that nearly 11.7 percent of states’ payments were miscalculated. Alaska, New Jersey and South Carolina reported the most frequent overpayment error rates in 2023, USDA data shows.
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You put up big piles of unattended money and it attracts maggots. It’s not rocket science.
States could be forced to pick up more of the tab after that based on their payment error rates.
“We are not cutting SNAP,” Johnson said. “We're working in the elements of fraud, waste and abuse.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the nation's largest nutrition assistance program, reported last year that nearly 11.7 percent of states’ payments were miscalculated. Alaska, New Jersey and South Carolina reported the most frequent overpayment error rates in 2023, USDA data shows....”
Wait a minute “last year 11.7 percent miscalculated payments” and certain states had “overpayment errors in 2023” 2023 and last year were part of the Biden Administration. So the fraud (or waste if you want to be enabling) were discovered by the Biden Administration and the Trump and House are trying to correct the situation.
Doesn't sound like the feds are “cutting SNAP” to starve people, it sounds like they are pushing the States to get their act together in administering federal funds. But that might be the problem is that states are incapable of administering federal funds without waste and fraud.
100% to 95%?? That’s what the left is screaming about? Jeez.
It should be called “The One Big Beautiful GOPe Porkfest Bill Act.” Granted the bill has much of President Trump’s agenda in it and that’s a good thing but it still piles on the national debt as it is loaded with pork projects and giveaways. In addition it raises the national debt ceiling by trillions, it is what the GOPe/RINOs do best. Doubtful the senate will chop it much and the congress will lose next year like it always does, folks just will not turn out to vote for these proven uniparty types.
>>>100% to 95%?? That’s what the left is screaming about? Jeez.
The Left would scream regardless. We should have gone bigger, 50% at least.
Yeah, that 5% contribution three years from now will change everything!
And not just amounts, some blue States are approving them for folks who do no even qualify. They are handing them out like candy at a parade...
It’s a rounding error
I bet you can’t believe the suposedly esteemed Speaker goes on TV and champions this.
They’re utterly deluded and will never propose serious cuts
US will have to default first or have some sort of major crisis.
They have chosen this path through their inertia.
It’s definitely not a good sign or direction. More every year of what they’ve been dishing out for decades now.
Nope, it's because they're corrupt leftists who are using programs like that to buy votes to stay in power.
There are 3rd and 4th generation of leeches on Snap. Reevaluate and cut those off that have received forever.
They carefully watch snap for any abuse, they carefully avoid ending the taxes on Social Security. Hurricane wipe out your state or a city in Hawaii burns down…. Eff you, you measly American people. Write DOGE cuts into law? FU.
But if Ukraine wants something, money is no object. No accounting needed. Golden dome, how much do you need? Foreign aid to Taiwan, money for Gaza and Syria… how much you want?
What a genius. I knew that and I am just a peon.
Congress has not properly structured SNAP. Reduce it to a limited supply of healthy basics and the cost per person covered could easily be a fraction of what it is.
The “Act ... calls for the federal share of SNAP costs to drop from the current 100 percent level to 95 percent in 2028.”
The feral government should not be involved in welfare programs at all. That should be left up to each state government (several of which have balanced budget amendments in their constitutions).
I agree. it should be a state program.
That's a very accurate description.
GO TO www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4255795/posts
Post #34.
SEE the top of the receipt shown there.
SEE HOW MUCH $$$$$$$ INVADERS ARE GETTING FROM YOUR TAXES
Over 1100 pages. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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