Feds Spent More in 1 Month on Food Stamps Than Trump Wants for Year on Wall

[rangerrebew]

Feds Spent More in 1 Month on Food Stamps Than Trump Wants for Year on Wall

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government spent more money on the food stamp program in October, which was the first month of fiscal 2019, than President Donald Trump now wants the Congress to approve for the border wall for the entirety of fiscal 2019.

In October, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement [1], the federal government spent $5,892,000,000 on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is also known as the food stamp program.
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/feds-spent-more-1-month-food-stamps-trump-wants-year-wall

[Chosen Daughter]

Feds Spent More in 1 Month on Food Stamps Than Trump Wants for Year on Wall

(CNSNews.com) - The federal government spent more money on the food stamp program in October, which was the first month of fiscal 2019, than President Donald Trump now wants the Congress to approve for the border wall for the entirety of fiscal 2019.

In October, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement [1], the federal government spent $5,892,000,000 on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is also known as the food stamp program.
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/feds-spent-more-1-month-food-stamps-trump-wants-year-wall

If you coupled that with all the illegal criminals housed in our Federal prisons.  All the money they spend on educating illegal immigrant children.  All of the health and dental.  Free cell phones  https://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net/states/washington-government-cell-phone-providers

Probably double or triple what Trump wants for the wall.  Isn't it funny but in 2015 Chuck Schumer had a whole web page condemning the slashing of budget for DEA, ATF, US Marshals.... to counter the affects Mexican Drug cartel have in New York.

https://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-reveals-new-fed-budget-slashes-anti-drug-trafficking-efforts-by-over-150m_--just-when-li-needs-dollars-most----as-sinaloa-drug-cartel-and-others-rush-more-drugs-to-li-nyc-schumer-launches-push-to-restore-fed-funding-used-to-hire-dea-agents-and-combat-sinaloa-and-other-cartlels-grip-on-li

What has happened now?  Mexican Drug Cartel worse than ever, but Schumer doesn't support border wall.  That doesn't make sense.  Obviously with the open border drug cartel have no problem bringing in drugs.  He quit caring about New York?  Has he been bought off by Mexican Drug Cartel?


Published February 13, 2017
Mexican official: Cartels send $64B in drugs into US annually

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexican-official-cartels-send-64b-in-drugs-into-us-annually

Hey, good job Chuck!

[Oceander]

So what? 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

So what?

Maybe it's what is purchased with the stamps.

[Oceander]

Maybe it's what is purchased with the stamps.

So the SNAP program could use some reform.  That still doesn’t justify wasting money we do not have on some “look at the size of my dick” monument for Trump and his supporters. 

[Chosen Daughter]

Maybe it's what is purchased with the stamps.

I saw that happen EBT.  The family with a tiny baby.  They bought bottles of soda, frozen potato meals, cookies and Mexican snacks, ice cream bars...Nothing nutritious at all in the cart.

[Oceander]

I saw that happen EBT.  The family with a tiny baby.  They bought bottles of soda, frozen potato meals, cookies and Mexican snacks, ice cream bars...Nothing nutritious at all in the cart.

So reform the SNAP program to limit what can be purchased with SNAP benefits. 

[Chosen Daughter]

So reform the SNAP program to limit what can be purchased with SNAP benefits.

How about this.  We reform the SNAP program and cut the benefits to people here in the United States illegally. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

So what?

Seems a good place to look for funds if we need them no?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

So the SNAP program could use some reform.  That still doesn’t justify wasting money we do not have on some “look at the size of my dick” monument for Trump and his supporters.

Handouts by the federal government is never a good way to distribute money or goods to the needy.

Reduce the amount to 0% and let the states do their own thing.

How's that for reform?

Gee, I wonder what we could do with all that money saved by the Treasury?