When were these Trump proposals implemented ?? or have they been ??It's just not on the fake news media you read...and the answer to my question (that I already knew):
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...ion-households
President Trump's proposal to the food stamp program would mean 1.7 million households, totaling 3.1 million people, will lose benefits that help them put food on the table. And on top of that, 500,000 kids will lose access to free school lunches.
But as grim as these cuts may seem, they are just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump administration also wants to bury those who remain eligible for food stamps in paperwork. These additional 17.2 million households will “undergo a more burdensome application process” according to the Congressional Research Service. The result: more red tape that means even more families will lose SNAP supports that have proven health and economic benefits.
As it stands, if you qualify for other anti-poverty programs, state governments in 43 states can use data from those programs to make it far easier to enroll in SNAP. The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to change this “categorical eligibility” rule to make enrolling in SNAP harder.
This is no accident. In fact, it’s only the latest example of how the Trump administration is getting better at using administrative burdens as a backdoor means of policymaking. Having failed in Congress to cut SNAP, the Trump administration is betting that making the application process more dysfunctional will have the same effect.
It’s a good bet. As we document in our book “Administrative Burdens,” relatively minor barriers like learning about new programmatic rules or completing additional paperwork strongly influence whether people sign up for benefits they really need. We are more likely to make mistakes or give up when we are lost in the paperwork maze.
The outcome of more red tape is entirely predictable. Indeed, we need only look at past SNAP policy changes. Until Clinton-era welfare reform, SNAP benefits were automatically linked with other welfare payments. Welfare reform delinked the two. And as a result, the fraction of eligible recipients receiving benefits dropped from 75 percent in 1994 to 54 percent in 2001. That is equivalent to about 1 in 5 poor Americans in 2001 losing their benefits.
But it goes far beyond just food stamps – the ripple effects of this policy change are large.