GOP leaders ready to quell states’ food stamp revolt

[babylonsister]

I so cannot stand these people. Don't they have a compassionate bone in their body?


GOP leaders ready to quell states’ food stamp revolt


At least 17 states took advantage of the allowance SNAP makes for matching qualifications. | AP Photo
By BILL TOMSON | 3/14/14 12:44 PM EDT Updated: 3/15/14 10:04 AM EDT


Republican leaders are threatening to take congressional action to stop state governors from flouting the food stamp cuts contained in the 2014 farm bill.

The governors of at least six states — New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Montana and Oregon — have now taken measures to protect more than a combined $800 million in annual Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and more states are expected to follow suit. Their actions threaten — over time — to wipe out the more than $8 billion in cuts over 10 years to the food stamp program that were just passed by Congress as part of the 2014 farm bill.

But those who initially supported the food stamp cuts are warning that retaliatory actions may be coming.

“Since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat, once again, on signing up people for food stamps,” Speaker of the House John Boehner told reporters Thursday. “And so I would hope that the House would act to try to stop this cheating and this fraud from continuing.”
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/food-stamp-cuts-104672.html#ixzz2w2yi1ghO

[WhiteTara]

1. Yeah. Rotten cheaters want to eat and damned if

the Orange Man is going let that happen. I ask, where do they come up with this stuff? Have they no humanity left at all?