Parents, your SNAP benefits are at risk - except for stay at home moms
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 14 May 2025 16:46 BST
House Republicans’ sprawling domestic policy bill would force parents of children between the ages of 8 and 18 to work for nutritional benefits, but it includes a provision to ensure that married, stay-at-home parents continue to receive them.
The House Agriculture Committee released the legislative text for its part of the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that Republicans hope to pass by the summer. Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to use the bill to extend the tax cuts President Donald Trump signed in 2017, ramp up spending on oil exploration and for immigration enforcement, particularly along the US-Mexico border.
Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution on an almost exclusively-party line vote. The bill requires that they find $1.5 trillion worth of spending cuts to unlock $4.5 billion worth of tax cuts. If Republicans fail to find $2 trillion worth of savings, the amount of money left for tax cuts would be reduced by the difference between $2 trillion and the final number of spending cuts.
Accordingly, the resolution would assign various committees to find a designated number of spending accounts, including requiring the Agriculture Committee to find $230 billion worth of cuts. Along with managing farms and the nation’s food supply, the Agriculture Committee also governs nutritional programs such as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known as SNAP, which replaced food stamps in 2008.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/snap-benefits-requirements-parents-gop-bill-b2751002.html
So if you are a widow (forget the widower) or divorced - both basically a "single-parent household" meaning having the least income and trying to raise the children - then fuck you.
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