PURE EVIL! Trump pushes to strip lifesaving money from disabled Americans if they live in a house with family members --

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I have Never seen something so cruel -and Foolish!!
What is a parent to do if they have a disabled kid when he reaches "adulthood"??



BREAKING: PURE EVIL! Trump pushes to strip lifesaving money from disabled Americans if they live in a house with family members — targeting innocent people with Down Syndrome and other severe disabilities.

This is a whole new level of cruelty...

According to a bombshell report from ProPublica, a new rule proposed by the Trump administration would "slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits."

The horrifying revelation was gleaned by reviewing internal government emails, a federal regulatory listing, and by speaking with four federal officials.

ProPublica focused on the case of Shy’tyra Burton, a Philadelphia woman with a below 70 IQ who is unable to work and lives with her father, a sanitation worker who makes $2,000 a month. Burton receives $994 a month from the SSI program but under the Trump administration's new rule, her benefits would be reduced by the value of the bedroom she lives in her father's house.

In other words, people barely scraping by on SSI benefits will be penalized for having a roof over their heads. Mentally disabled people will be forced to reduce their monthly costs even more, going without food or medication in some instances. Those reductions will apply even if the family members they live with are poor enough to be qualify for food stamps.

Households that receive SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are vulnerable to these cuts because of a "complicated" interlocking system of rules according to ProPublica. Basically, a family on SNAP is officially considered too poor to "financially support a disabled loved one living at home." This newly proposed rule would exploit that assessment to harm these vulnerable individuals.

Under this draconian new rule, most low-income SSI recipients will have their income slashed by a third. Some will lose their benefits altogether.

In the case of Burton, ProPublica estimates that this rule could save taxpayers a paltry $11 a day. Meanwhile, Republicans are currently arguing that we should shell out $400 million for Trump's White House ballroom. The Iran War has cost $35 billion so far.

This administration is stomping on the poorest, most vulnerable members of our society to pay for even more graft, tax cuts, and sweetheart deals for the top 1%. The fact that these Republicans call themselves "Christians" just makes the cruelty all the more galling. Jesus Christ would be horrified by these people.

The report goes on to point out that in the case of Burton, a reduction to her SSI payments could mean that her father is no longer able to support her, at which point she would have to move into a facility that could cost taxpayers hundreds of dollars more a day.

Not only is this rule evil, it's self-defeating. Nothing will be accomplished other than increased suffering for struggling Americans.