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“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ag Secretary Rollins: "The good news -- in just one year alone, we've already moved 4.5 million people off of SNAP. So this idea that once a government program is in place you can never roll it back, President Trump has proven that to be wrong. So we're going to be pulling more and more people off."

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More than 50% of people on SNAP are children. They are starving children, the disabled, and the elderly. It is disgusting. You can’t be republican and also be Christian. These 2 things are diametrically opposed.

This is par for the course for christians. Christians and christianity are simply a force for moral evil in the world, on the whole. There are left wing christians who are decent people, but they’re the exception and not the rule.

But but but…they spend it all on alcohol and junk food!!! (I’ve been on SNAP. You can’t buy that shit, cash register will flag it and make you pay cash. I bought a can of baby formula for a guy infront of me at Target bc he had the **wrong size** of formula container for coverage)

‘People should work’ unless they’re old, disabled or a child. Trad wives, ‘hold my beer.’ Oh forget it, I’m pregnant. conservatives can’t make up their minds! They are bemoaning the fact that teens don’t have babies anymore, that the birth rate is falling. Where is the universal childcare?

this works for people who aren't paying attention enough so assume they're competent and moral because they're in charge, so it must be fraud they're getting rid of. or for the cruel ones, immigrants/lazy. it's unfortunately easy when they outsource their thinking to cruel liars

Her line about "pulling people off" SNAP---not that they no longer qualify on income but she is saying they basically booted them off....very telling choice of language there.

It is meant to sound like they improved the economy so that many people on SNAP no longer qualified due to higher wages. Alas, they just kicked people off SNAP with no improvement in their circumstances.

To be fair this is the same admin who tried to tell us that people spending more on everything and racking up credit card debt was good, so……

We really have to start asking why we are paying taxes to a government to cut programs that help people and elevate communities while giving corporations tax breaks so they can pay a sh!tty wage that forces people onto the government programs they are cutting. It's a viscious cycle.

Also hurts farmers since about 25% of SNAP funds go to purchase their crops. GOP doesn’t really care though since they take the rural vote for granted and then repeatedly crush them with policy (tariffs, fuel/fertilizer cost from Iran war, etc.).

An organized opposition party could have a field day with this, demanding Republican congresscritters defend kicking constituents off of SNAP and documenting how much SNAP money was no longer being spent in local grocery stores. Sadly, one doesn't exist.

They used to be smart enough to pretend (or dumb enough to believe?) that this was a social good because a program is a success if you leave because then you don't need it anymore. Now the cruelty is the point so they really want to make that clear.

Especially stupid since every time these Republican fascists are in power, they *do* 'roll back' every safety net to every extent possible. It's economic war on the poor and small business, every time.

Crazy upsetting way for her to put it. If she means that they found jobs for all of those people, then she should say that. The utter lack of care for other humans the Right has stuns me. I'm a New Yorker of 18 years who doesn't like people and the lack of sh!ts the Right has to give stuns me.

Well, he said we won’t ever have to vote again.. 🤔. Seems he can do whatever he wants when he’s got the voting system rigged. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤨🤬

Evidently she was not raised in a needy situation, AgSec has zero understanding of food insecurity. Her family probably never had to figure out how to feed the family AND keep the lights/water on. This admin lacks experience, knowledge, understanding and empathy.

Take note of the glee with which she brags about starving millions of people, most of them children. Cities should start bidding now to host the most popular tribunals. Hers is going to be more crowded than you might expect.

The only path the GOP has is rallying their base and hoping Dems are split among themselves and fail to rally theirs. Dems’ “rallying the base” isn’t the same thing as pandering to either the left or the center, it’s not that simple. But it’s just keeping their voters happy and Dems don’t do that.

According to the USDA, who manages the program, last year 51% of SNAP recipients worked full time. In almost every state the companies with the most employees on SNAP were Walmart and Amazon. If your business model depends on your employees being on public assistance, then it is broken.

Just like with any free money, there is always corruption, but I would rather tax payer money go to a large percent of moms with kids for food than billionaires wanting legacy ego rooms for their teeny tiny balls.

Republicans the "christian" party, that does the opposite of the teachings of Jesus. Didn't Jesus say feed the poor?

Nothing they’ve done helps them politically. It hasn’t stopped them from shutting down the government, or killing off popular programs, or attempting to fund a ballroom, allowing the Iran war to continue, tariffs to continue, alienating our allies, etc, etc.

Considering there are just as many magas on SNAP as democrats not only does it hurt them, but it really hurts the kids. Her agency changes qualifications and rules weekly and make the states and counties figure out what rules have changed. They are starving america’s children.

It never stops to amaze me how lower US with fall. Well I guess the reps will with do anything to "own the libs", even if they gonna set entire country ablaze

This heifer had the audacity to send an over the top (and what I believe to be trolling) Easter email to USDA employees and she’s out here bragging about starving people. May she spend eternity in a lake of fire. 🔥

What happens when a critical mass of desperate people realize that they have little or nothing to loose in expressing their legit wants and needs through violence? Remember, guns and ammo are readily available everywhere in the US.