Justices dismiss Trump-era immigration case, in a Biden win
The Trump-era rule denied green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits.
By Associated Press - June 16, 2022The Trump-era rule denied green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits.
By Associated Press - June 16, 2022Biden is proposing a $1 billion increase in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, from which Trump repeatedly tried to slash funds.
By Donna Provencher - April 09, 2021By overturning Gov. Tony Evers’ emergency health orders, the Legislature could cost the state $49 million in federal food assistance.
By Josh Israel - January 28, 2021The Trump administration is fighting a ruling from a federal judge, who said it would be ‘arbitrary and capricious’ to force hundreds of thousands from the program during a global health crisis.
By Associated Press - March 19, 2020The Trump administration’s ‘work requirement’ rule will eliminate states’ flexibility and mean more hungry people.
By Josh Israel - December 04, 2019Stricter rules requiring families to continuously prove their eligibility has led to a rise in uninsured children.
By Emily Singer - October 22, 2019The Trump administration released the analysis during National School Lunch Week.
By Emily Singer - October 16, 2019Trump and the GOP have already pushed for major cuts to food stamps, children’s health care, and school lunches.
By Mike Stankiewicz - August 13, 2019The Trump administration’s ploy to take food stamps away from 2 million Americans will also hurt a half-million schoolchildren.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 29, 2019Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue introduced a new rule that would kick more than 3 million people off food stamps.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 23, 2019The Trump administration is dragging its feet on delivering the $600 million in emergency funding to Puerto Rico that Trump approved more than two weeks ago.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 24, 2019Trump has a backchannel way to cut benefits for low-income Americans without the approval of Congress.
By Emily Singer - June 18, 2019Team Trump is acting like it’s somehow easier for people to find work if they’re starving.
By Emily Crockett - April 01, 2019Trump’s budget proposal calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, and includes a $220 billion cut to food stamps, among other draconian proposals.
By Emily Singer - March 11, 2019Republicans are not backing off their quest to kick needy Americans off the food stamps they need to feed their families.
By Emily Singer - February 20, 2019Trump is truly a Scrooge.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2018Senior citizens and children get hit the hardest, according to a new study.
By Tommy Christopher - September 12, 2018As he prepares to vacation at his luxury resort, Trump kicks poor people on his way out of town.
By Tommy Christopher - August 03, 2018The House farm bill would kick families off nutritional assistance, while giving subsidies to billionaires. Every House Republican running for Senate voted to pass it.
By Matthew Chapman - June 22, 2018Republicans are doing their best to strip food away from vulnerable poor Americans who need it the most.
By Oliver Willis - March 28, 2018