Food Stamps
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins' talk about making SNAP recipients reapply for benefits has program stakeholders scratching their heads.
"The thought of losing SNAP this month doesn’t just scare me. It breaks something open in my chest."
The move is the Trump administration's latest chaotic attempt to withhold SNAP benefits from 42 million Americans during the ongoing government shutdown.
None of this was inevitable.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The administration has until Monday to decide how it's going to fund the country's biggest food aid program for November amid the ongoing shutdown.
The Health and Human Services secretary is standing at the opposite end of his late father’s anti-poverty legacy.
Democrats wanted a fight over health care, but it's the millions of people who rely on food assistance that could suffer the immediate consequences of a government shutdown.
"The Trump administration has pulled a complete 180," an administrative law expert tells HuffPost
Harrison Fields blamed Democrats for putting millions of Americans at risk of losing food stamps, despite the fact that he supported previous GOP cuts to the program.
One in 8 Americans rely on food stamps, but the USDA says "the well has run dry." Here's what you can do.