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Bill goes to the sup lemental nutrition program. every year republicans try to take an ax to the snap program. last year they succeeded in signing off on cuts of $800 million a year. this time republicans are not seeking cuts to the funding program but instead are hoping to shrink the roles of the americans who receive snap benefits by imposing work requirements. if a family fell short a month, even if they had problem with a paperwork, their hours got cut, that family would lose their benefits for a year. then the budget office said those requirements would succeed in knocking 1.2 million peo...

Bill goes to the supplemental nutrition program. every year republicans try to take an ax to the snap program. last year they succeeded in signing off on cuts of $800 million a year. this time republicans are not seeking cuts to the funding program but instead are hoping to shrink the roles of the americans who receive snap benefits by imposing work requirements. if a family fell short a month, even if they had problem with a paperwork, their hours got cut, or they needed to care for a sick child. that family would lose their benefits for a year. then the budget office said those requirements ...

Brian: neil ferguson predicted that he wrote a book about it. i'm in silicon valley they are looking to correct things in the mid terms and they are doing it. ainsley: congressman long said go back and look what conservative sites have you taken down and compare them to the number of liberal sites have you taken down i think you will see a discrepancy there. let us know what you think. brian: if they tried to shut down jillian mele's website there would have been outrage. jillian: i would have. not absolutely not. the trump administration now considering mandatory drug tests for food stamp rec...

Economy. there are great programs where if you are a snap recipient and you are shopping athe a farmer' market, you are getting double the amount of your benefit and it goes directly to farmers. there us a multiplier effect. it creates $1.75 of economic activity for every $1 spent through the snap program. we need nutrition. that's really the crux of this here. children, when they go to school, if they have proper breakfast, they actually can learn. we are talking about seniors and people with disabilities. this is the way they actually feed themselves. we are talking about 1.5 million veteran...

Plan. >> i think this plan is absurd. it's absurd for so many reasons. number one, a couple years ago when new york city made the move to sort of ban big gulp. now the right is picking winners and loser what is type of foods we eat. they want to get rid of the big government and creating big government. that's number one, number the two other problem with this doesn't also take into consideration what states will have to pay. so who will ship these boxes? how will they get mailed? how will they be distributed? truth be told, the snap program currently is actually very nimble. and it actually -...