The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as food stamps are also known, expands automatically to accommodate need. By the time Trump introduced his brand of conservative populism, scepticism of food stamps was part of the movement’s genome. His chief of staff, Mark Meadows, called last year for using erroneous food stamp payments to fund the border wall. “Millions of able-bodied, working-age adults continue to collect food stamps without working or even looking for work,” Trump said. She feeds them on $170 of food stamps and frequents food pantries.

Source: bd News24 May 07, 2020 02:37 UTC