Using SNAP as leverage was bad idea first time around

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By Erika D. Smith / Bloomberg Opinion

During this fall’s government shutdown, when food banks faced lines circling the block, President Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that he’d become the face of his administration’s refusal to fund SNAP food benefits.

“I do NOT want Americans to go hungry,” he insisted on Truth Social in October, even as he waged a pitched legal battle to keep the nation’s largest anti-hunger program idled along with the rest of the federal government.

Polls show that strategy didn’t work out so well for Trump or for Republicans. Nevertheless, the administration, having failed to learn from that mistake, is doubling down and planning to try it again.

As soon as this week, millions of low-income and working-class Americans could have their SNAP food benefits withheld; part of what Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says is an attempt to root out “rampant fraud,” but Democrats say is a sneaky attempt to expand the White House’s mass deportation campaign.

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