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Would now have some of their benefits delivered as a nonperishable food items, we are talking about juice, greens, cereal, pasta, peanut butter along with fruits and vegetables and canned meats. the usda has dubbed the program america's harvest box. office of management and budget director mick mulvaney has likened it to blue apron, the companies that delivers uncooked meals, here he is. >> it lowers the cost to us because we can buy prices at wholesale, we also make sure they are getting nutritious foo food. >> the program would save the federal government an estimated $129 billion over ten y...

Another story making major headlines this morning the trump administration is looking to drastically scale back the nation's food stamp program replacing it with a blue apron style food delivery system. in other words, foods like pasta, canned meat and beans would be delivered to people's homes. the program called america's harvest box is buried deep within the president's budget and is being met with major skepticism. more than 16 million households would have half of their benefits go towards the food box delivery. the new boxes would go to households that qualify for $90 or more per month i...

Government interfering what you need or don't need. i don't think democrats like that. >> this is a bold and innovative approach the administration is taking. it is. what i love about it, it puts american farmers first. every product that will be shipped will be coming from an american farmer, an american producer. that's an added bonus. the other advantage here is that we're going to be saving a lot of money. over a course of a decade, the first decades being rolled out, all the recipients will get the same amount of food and the government will save $129 billion, with a b, $129 billion. this...

I go grocery shopping. how much can you get for $29 a week? if they're cutting it by billions with a b, how much can we go further in this? >> i'll tell you. usda explained this. the way they're going to do it, currently under the snap program, consumers are buying products by retail. now the government will be able to buy products wholesale and realize tremendous cost savings. this is the product -- this is what you get by having a ceo of president of the united states. this is bold, it's innovative -- >> and you get fewer choices and government run. that's what the -- >> people are complaini...

Clasping hands. and nobody's going to look at it. nobody's going to reform the spending. as a consequence wasteful spending is riddled throughout your government. only four times in four years have we done the appropriation process the way we're supposed to. recently they did a pentagon study. they audited a part of the pentagon. this partial audit shows that $800 million was misplaced or lost. just 800 million. i don't think they actually put it in a closet and burned it. but they can't find it. a while back they looked at some of the military expenditures and they had $29 billion worth of st...