All posts tagged "Food Stamps"

A slow-rolling change buried in President Donald Trump's signature law is hitting Americans' wallets right as Republicans need their votes most.

Politico reported Saturday that changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, pushed through in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are taking effect in waves just as the midterms approach. More than 5 million people had dropped off food stamp rolls nationwide by this summer, and in Arizona, the hardest-hit state, more than half of recipients lost their benefits.

Democrats see an opening. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, told Politico that the timing could hardly be worse for Republicans....

Online commentators are tearing into White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's latest comments on welfare and food stamps as an obvious lie.

"The way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it," Miller said on Thursday. "If you file a piece of paper, and you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don't check."

The reactions called out Miller's explanation of welfare and food stamps. Journalist Jamie Satterfield described it as a "bald faced lie" in a post on X....

Despite having a centrist Democratic governor in Andy Beshear, Kentucky is a deep-red state that Donald Trump carried in three presidential elections in a row. Nationally, Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by roughly 1.5 percent in 2024; in Kentucky, he won by 31 percent.

But in an article published on Thanksgiving 2025, The Nation's Zachary Clifton focuses on struggling Trump voters in Kentucky who are feeling disillusioned with his economic policies.

"In an April morning in 1964," Clifton explains, "President Lyndon B. Johnson landed in Martin County, Kentucky, stepping from Marine One to the hollers of a rural county where 60 percent of residents lived in poverty. ...

WASHINGTON — Happy Groundhog Day. Again.

With the US federal government shutdown entering its fifth week and a growing number of Americans feeling deepening economic pain, there are whispers of a thaw on Capitol Hill. At the very least, some more middle-of-the-road Democratic and Republican senators are talking to each other.

Such signs of bipartisanship seemed to have spooked President Donald Trump, who took to Truth Social late last week to demand GOP leaders “INITIATE THE ‘NUCLEAR OPTION’” and get rid of the filibuster, so Republicans can more easily ram Trump-approved policies through Congress. ...

Federal prosecutors in Georgia announced indictments on Tuesday against 88 people in one of the country's largest food-stamp fraud cases.

A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate compared food stamp recipients to wild animals in a Facebook post.