With House Win, GOP Pushes Food-Stamp Cuts to the Far Right

One after another, a parade of Democrats went before the microphone, held up a flier with a picture on it: a grandmother in Arkansas, an unemployed mother in Ohio, a veteran, a cancer survivor, on and on, all faces of the hungry in America. Flustered by the theatrics, Republican Pete Sessions of Texas sought to clarify the GOP’s proposed $40 billion cut in food stamps, or SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, explaining that only able-bodied adults would be removed from the rolls if they’re not looking for work.

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