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BumRushDaShow

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9. "We already have SNAP."

Reply to Lonestarblue (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 22, 2026, 09:31 AM

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"SNAP" is about to be nearly obliterated due to the Barbaric Butcher Bill.

Congress is marking up the Farm Bill (the appropriations that should have been done in 2023 instead of endlessly extending the 2018 one and a House Ag Committee version just made it out oi committee last month, with a companion Senate version in process) and that is where SNAP is being funded and will be gutted. And this goes along with introducing draconian limits and work requirements for people who have already been out of work or who already ARE working but forced to do it via a series of gig jobs that don't provide enough for housing, let alone food.

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