by Jake Johnson | Jun 24, 2026 | Farm Bill, Food Assistance, Food Assistance Programs, Food Insecurity, Hunger, Hunger Crisis, News, Republicans, SNAP, SNAP food stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Senate Republicans unveiled annual farm legislation this week that would do nothing to address the worsening nationwide hunger crisis spurred by President Donald Trump and the GOP’s unprecedented assault on federal food aid. The draft bill introduced Tuesday by Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, omits a Democratic proposal to delay a provision of the…
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by Sasha Abramsky | Apr 9, 2026 | big beautiful bill, Budget, Child Care, Donald Trump, Food Assistance, Food Assistance Programs, health care, Iran, iran war, LIHEAP, MAHA, Medicaid, Medicare, Military Spending, News, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Pentagon, Pentagon budget, Republicans, Safety Net, War, war in Iran, WIC
Last week, at a private Easter lunch, Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic saying that with the country at war, the federal government should offload Medicaid, Medicare, and child care expenditures onto the states. “We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” the MAGA leader said. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”…
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