WASHINGTON ― As the Donald Trump administration prepares more regulations to strip poor people of food benefits, Republicans on Capitol Hill are launching something of a charm offensive. The Trump administration might try to take away that flexibility, which Republicans say lets thousands of millionaires collect food benefits each year. The program currently provides food benefits to roughly 36 million Americans, making it one of the government’s biggest programs. Roughly 5% of SNAP benefits were overpayments in 2017 and only 11% of those were due to fraud. During the Barack Obama administration, they pointed to a California surfer who used his food benefits for lobster and didn’t say he was sorry.

Source: Huffington Post June 20, 2019 19:52 UTC