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Less. removing hundreds of thousands of out of work americans from food stamps is not reflective of our values. >> the snap program is supposed to be a safety net and not a lifestyle. the trump administration is targeting those who are able to work who are not working and not looking for a job. we want to encourage people to get out there and participate in the work force. the economy is strong. there are jobs available. we watched the story of the man using a snap card to buy lobster. america i...

Generous country that should do more to help the most vulnerable, not less. removing hundreds of thousands of out of work americans from the program is not reflective of our values. >> the snap program is supposed to be a safety net, not a lifestyle and the trump administration is targeting those who are able to work who arent working, arent looking for a job. we want to encourage people to get out and participate in the workforce. look at the economy, there are jobs available. people need to ge...

$16 billion this year alone to make welfare payments to agri business affected by trumps trade war. the rule announced today represents just one phase of trumps planned cuts for the nations 36.4 million food stamp recipients. if and when two other initiatives take effect, the urban institute, which studies this sort of thing, estimates the measures would together cut 3.7 million beneficiaries from the snap program. critics say this is a completely unnecessary attack on the poorest americans and ...

Service, people in rural america, and it will save about a billion dollars a year, but its also going to hurt retailers that need that food service as well. ironically theyre doing this at the same time, removing a lot of people from the program, while providing anywhere between 15 and $25 billion in direct payments for farmers for losses through these tariffs that are taking place with china. i certainly dont object to some of those payments but at a time when were moving the poorest people off...

Of his office and surround himself with people that are loyalists, that could -- that threatens our democracy and it reminds me of many dictators in latin america which is why i am telling you and i think that a lot of us feel this way, its not t political. this is about protecting the constitution, the future of our democracy, its about myfu children and everyones children in this country. >> thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. coming up, the trump administration ma...

Congress impeachment power if you have a president who simply refuses to acquiesce even to lower court rulings and will keep grinding out the clock. this he should have asked turley that and didnt so i agree with that criticism. >> its my assigned responsibility to thank you but im going to offer that to my colleague, stephanie ruhle. >> i love when you have that. on twitter they are like are they fighting? we are never fighting. have at it, biggie. >> charlie savage, always a pleasure to have y...

The work requirement rule would save the government $5.5 billion over five years, just for context here the trump administration has authorized $16 billion this year alone to make welfare payments to agri business affected by trumps trade war. it represents just one phase for trumps planned cuts for the $34 million food stamp recipients. the urban institute who studies this sort of thing estimates the measures would cut 3.7 billion from the snap program. critics say this is an attack on the poor...

It is a solvable problem but one that actually has to be solved. and youve come up with what you offer as a solution. >> yeah. you know, we can do better than were doing right now as a nation. its a shame that in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, that theres still people who are food insecure. senior citizens. young children that go hungry every day. and so i put out a plan about three days ago to end hunger in the united states. that calls for making investments to expand the s...

Theres one estimate out there, one analysis that says that this could cause more than 2 million more people to be food insecure, these changes the trump administration is proposing. we also see out there a growing number of homeless individuals in cities big and in small towns. so this is exactly the wrong direction that our country should be going in. a couple days ago, i released a plan to end hunger in america to make investments in our snap program, in the wic program, these programs that pr...