Editorial: President Scrooge's Christmas gift to millions of poor Americans: A cut to their small food stipend
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 09, 2019
3 minutes
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Congress rejected President Trump's efforts on last year's farm bill to impose new food stamp restrictions that would have cut benefits for more than a million needy people. So Trump decided to pursue the changes through executive action. On Dec. 4, the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized the first of three new regulatory changes to food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, just in time for
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