All posts tagged "Welfare"

A former Department of Homeland Security official accused the Justice Department of threatening to "starve poor kids" to force states into mass deportations.

In a Thursday article for the Defiance Substack, former Trump DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor warned that the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion that threatens to pull federal funding from states that don't "snitch on illegal aliens," he wrote.

Under the new guideline, states that accept federal money through TANF or SSI, two welfare programs, must direct all state agencies to report suspected undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk being cut off....

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....

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) had hoped to pass the gubernatorial baton to his wife, Casey DeSantis, when his full term runs out in 2027, describing her as the right person to take his accomplishments "to the next level.”

But an analysis piece in The Guardian suggested that a brewing financial scandal could derail the couple's plans of political dynasty and keep Casey DeSantis from even declaring her candidacy.

According to The Guardian, a charity Casey founded in 2021 called the Hope Florida Foundation with a mandate to reduce government funding for welfare programs has become "mired in controversy," as first reported by The Tampa Bay Times....

On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said that the website PolitiFact needed to "go away" or stop using the word fact in its name.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Animal welfare groups sued BP for burning endangered sea turtles and asked a federal court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill.