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call you break the record in which is at the negotiating strategy here seems
completely bogus timid in other words of the senate democrats start out with
their opening bid essentially being that they're gonna cut the program by four
billion dollars
and house representatives which is controlled by the republicans
how before bill that they're about to pass this coming week
that they're going to cut the food says program by some
in twenty billion twenty million years which will dramatically
reduce eligibility for the program throwing two million people off the
rolls
pretzels a little bit about that
art is a real it's only in the middle but it'd be really boggles the mind the
senate democrats would start with an opening bid
of clients who have a great does not bode well arm but so so the dollhouse
um...
that but you just said is correct and that's effectively to throw two million
people off the rolls of food stamps
because you're right now there's this option in most states provide this
option skull categorical eligibility means that if you have as you talk as
you mentioned before the line is that the first was a hundred thirty percent
of federal poverty line
so if your total assets your ditto incomes give me your gross income is
above that but you disposable income is below the federal poverty line you can
still receive snap benefits of this affects people primarily with high
health care costs child care cost people with you know the the livid seniors
myfamily i'm had
high health care costs are or child care costs use of these people that two
million americans under the current house going to be thrown off food stamps
i'm so not only are you getting those two million people but additionally
some of those those are closest to be clear who have
uh... under a certain provisions owner of the rhetoric on the cardinals for
scrap
for food stamps
folks that have disposable income under under thirty percent of poverty because
their primary expenses
uh... such as health care person we may be housing render them
happen to the disposable income less than that pratt would now be in a little
for the program completely right
and and and these are mainly folks that have people with disabilities in the
family
people seniors high health care costs those kinds of individuals now
also point out something in the article which i encourage everyone to read it in
these times and focal staying on track wholesaler and in these times on twitter
at in these times mag
and that is that
by rendering these folks ineligible for food stamps the federal level
they may also then be common eligible for food aid at the state level
rat and instead of the three mails program
service so
but uh... the specifics children and basically who because of their
eligibility their households eligibility for snap are able to receive free meals
provided right about schools um... and so this this expat couple hundred
thousand children are now going to user access to uh... free meals program
because that eligibility is tied up with their household snap eligibility to not
only are you getting two million people thrown off snapped bobby ross again as
additional couple hundred thousand of children now we're not gonna be able to
get free access to free meals programs as at their schools
called there is some conservatives that they've claimed that president oklahoma
is the food stamp president
and that as part of the stimulus he expanded
the the the eligibility requirements for the supplemental nutrition assistance
program
dismisses rolling that back up mt i'm confused
and say you had to do that
expiring so he had to get additional godbless in in food stamp eligibility
because of um... economic crisis because of the part of the stimulus so thats
expiring anyway said this exit is cuts are coming in addition to that than
needed right so you're just a sword with this four billion dollars in cuts the
senate democrats are proposing
is on top of
expiring expansion of the of ability that had been underway it is not is not
just uh... offsetting yeah expansion eligibility disappeared were clear the
food says program forty seven million americans depend on it directly it's
believed that many more americans or food insecure or or someone hungry