But in the past few weeks things have actually gone from terrible to unimaginable. There's the GOP " Ebenezer Scrooge" Farm Bill, which would have cut food stamps by $20.5bn, causing nearly 2 million poor Americans to lose food assistance. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Republican House also passed an amendment to the bill that would force food stamp recipients to work in return for benefits, but provided no actual funds for job training. In fact, it even barred states from spending more money on employment and training. So if you're a poor person and you lose your job, you lose the government benefits that allow you to feed you family. This piece of monstrous legislative crueltywas supported by all but six House Republicans. Thankfully the larger bill failed, but Republican heartlessness has hardly been dimmed.
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But in the past few weeks things have actually gone from terrible to unimaginable. There's the GOP " Ebenezer Scrooge" Farm Bill, which would have cut food stamps by $20.5bn, causing nearly 2 million poor Americans to lose food assistance. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Republican House also passed an amendment to the bill that would force food stamp recipients to work in return for benefits, but provided no actual funds for job training. In fact, it even barred states from spending more money on employment and training. So if you're a poor person and you lose your job, you lose the government benefits that allow you to feed you family. This piece of monstrous legislative crueltywas supported by all but six House Republicans. Thankfully the larger bill failed, but Republican heartlessness has hardly been dimmed.
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