Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Alex G]

the party of "no food for you"

food stamps cut

the Dems had to cave because not a single Repuke would vote for ending Bushes tax cuts for wealthy,
or tax breaks for oil companies in order to pay for food stamps


"...$6.7 billion from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP,
formerly known as food stamps."

http://washingtonindependent.com/93125/senate-moves-edujobs-and-fmap-funding

Senate Moves EduJobs and FMAP Funding
By Annie Lowrey 7/29/10 6:37 PM
This evening, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) attached an amendment with funding to
preserve teachers’ jobs and to provide much-needed Medicaid funding to states to
a Federal Aviation Administration bill. The amendment is fully paid-for, and the
FAA bill is just a vehicle. Reid filed cloture, meaning the Senate will vote on
the provisions on Monday.
The amendment includes $10 billion in funding for teachers’ jobs and $16.1
billion in funding for the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, or FMAP,
program, which provides Medicaid funding to states. For offsets, it closes
foreign tax credit loopholes to raise $9 billion; it also cuts $2 billion from
Medicaid drug pricing, $8.4 billion in rescissions and $6.7 billion from the
Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food
stamps.
There were no further details released at the time. At first blush, cutting food
stamps to pay for Medicaid — both problems aid the most economically distressed
Americans — and teachers’ jobs seems like a hard compromise to swallow, though
it is unclear when the cuts will take effect and what portions will be cut. Rep.
Dave Obey (D-Wis.) recently said the White House suggested cutting SNAP to pay
for teachers’ jobs.
States have crusaded for Congress to provide promised funds, held up primarily
by Senate Republicans concerned about deficit-spending. $24 billion in Medicaid
funding died with the jobs bill, or H.R. 4213, eventually stripped down to just
its unemployment extension portion. And Senate Democratic leadership stripped
teachers’ jobs funding from the war supplemental bill.