Biden Is Spending Nearly 40% More On Food Stamps Than Trump, And He Wants To Expand It Further "To End US Hunger."

[Jim H - VA USA]

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity: Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food and promoting exercise and healthy eating included in ambitious White House project to requires MORE money from Congress​

• The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030
• The plan includes expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food
• The administration also seeks to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity and hypertension
• It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition
• Biden is hosting a conference on Wednesday on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969

...Under to the White House plan, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility would be expanded, children would get better access to free meals, and summer benefits would be extended to more schoolkids....

The Biden administration increased funding for food stamps nearly a year ago, but at the same time has purchased about half as much food as the Trump administration did in 2020, for food banks, schools and indigenous reservations, according to data obtained from a U.S. Agriculture Department(USDA) source.

Escalating food prices are eroding the reach of food stamps, which average around $231 per person per month in 2022, according to USDA data, sending more people to food banks, that are in turn receiving less food from the government.

Food stamp benefits for fiscal year 2022 are on track to reach $114.9 billion, down slightly from 2021 but 36.87% more than in 2020.

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity

The Biden admin is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Comments:
Biden must not have heard the old adage, "give a man a fish..."

Is anyone dying of starvation or malnutrition in the US? I help out an extremely poor disabled gentleman. He can go get a free meal every day.

Most importantly, just giving people crumbs creates a reliance on government support. There is no motivation to change one's situation.

The goal should be the opposite - to get everyone off of food stamps except the truly disabled. The root causes need to be addressed. Inflation is one of the main reasons people are struggling to afford food. Putting more people on food stamps is not something to celebrate.

Will the "more free stuff" ever end? Everything is a disaster, and Biden's fix is always to promise more free stuff in the face of economic collapse. He's going to hurt us all.

It almost seems as if the Biden Admin has set in motion a plan to quickly make lots more people reliant upon the government, and get more Democrat voters as a result.

 

[1srelluc]

Hell, the slags going into the local food bank are as broad as they are tall....Their spawn too.

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[sparky]

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

im on it!

~S~

 

[fncceo]

We need MORE American hunger ...

 

[Laslow]

On my local news, they were talking about dumping huge amounts of money into energy assistance. Dems break things, make life awful, then pat themselves on the back by giving the people they destroyed some government money. It is sick. I'm not sure it is just a means of government control, I think these idiots just destroy stuff, say whoops, we meant well, and then throw some tax money on their mistakes with a warm glowing tingle of how great they are. Why not just let people achieve their own success and self respect?

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[themirrorthief]

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity: Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food and promoting exercise and healthy eating included in ambitious White House project to requires MORE money from Congress​

• The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030
• The plan includes expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food
• The administration also seeks to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity and hypertension
• It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition
• Biden is hosting a conference on Wednesday on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969

...Under to the White House plan, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility would be expanded, children would get better access to free meals, and summer benefits would be extended to more schoolkids....

The Biden administration increased funding for food stamps nearly a year ago, but at the same time has purchased about half as much food as the Trump administration did in 2020, for food banks, schools and indigenous reservations, according to data obtained from a U.S. Agriculture Department(USDA) source.

Escalating food prices are eroding the reach of food stamps, which average around $231 per person per month in 2022, according to USDA data, sending more people to food banks, that are in turn receiving less food from the government.

Food stamp benefits for fiscal year 2022 are on track to reach $114.9 billion, down slightly from 2021 but 36.87% more than in 2020.

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity

The Biden admin is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Comments:
Biden must not have heard the old adage, "give a man a fish..."

Is anyone dying of starvation or malnutrition in the US? I help out an extremely poor disabled gentleman. He can go get a free meal every day.

Most importantly, just giving people crumbs creates a reliance on government support. There is no motivation to change one's situation.

The goal should be the opposite - to get everyone off of food stamps except the truly disabled. The root causes need to be addressed. Inflation is one of the main reasons people are struggling to afford food. Putting more people on food stamps is not something to celebrate.

Will the "more free stuff" ever end? Everything is a disaster, and Biden's fix is always to promise more free stuff in the face of economic collapse. He's going to hurt us all.

It almost seems as if the Biden Admin has set in motion a plan to quickly make lots more people reliant upon the government, and get more Democrat voters as a result.

bidens brain is mush...lets face it...he has the hard left shoved so far up his ass he shits carbon credits the poor old clown

 

[WTH_Progs?]

In fairness, Biden and Democrats have destroyed the economy with stagflation and historic inefficiency. Fat people are starving.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Well now, this should really help with our labor shortage problem now won't it?

More using taxpayer money for vote buying. Most of the people on these programs vote Democrat.

 

[AntonToo]

Now for some reality:

Congress increased SNAP benefits beginning in the spring of 2020. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 provided authority for USDA to approve state waiver requests to issue SNAP emergency allotments (EAs) while federal and state emergency or disaster declarations are in effect. Under a Trump Administration interpretation, EAs raised each SNAP household’s benefits to the level of the SNAP maximum allotment, thereby helping households that don’t otherwise receive the maximum allotment. In April 2021, USDA revised the EA calculations to include the lowest-income households — those who already receive the maximum allotment or benefits close to the maximum allotment and so previously received no or only a small increase in their benefit level — so that each household now receives at least an additional $95 per month. When the EAs expire, the average SNAP benefit in fiscal year 2022 is estimated to decline by about $81 per person per month (or about $2.66 per day).

Policy Basics: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

In a typical month in 2018, SNAP helped more than 40 million low-income Americans afford a nutritionally adequate diet.

www.cbpp.org

December 20, 2018, President Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the Farm Bill) into law.

President Trump Signed the Farm Bill into Law One Year Ago Today, USDA Highlights Implementation Accomplishments to Date

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2019) – One year ago today, on December 20, 2018, President Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the Farm Bill) into law. Since that time, USDA has been working as quickly as possible to implement the 2018 Farm Bill. USDA leaders have...

www.usda.gov

Title IV of the 2018 Farm bill required that the USDA reevaluate the TFP by 2022 to better reflect current food costs, food composition, eating habits, and dietary guidelines.



Can you imagine that? What Dear Leader signed into law has consequences.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Now for some reality:

Congress increased SNAP benefits beginning in the spring of 2020. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 provided authority for USDA to approve state waiver requests to issue SNAP emergency allotments (EAs) while federal and state emergency or disaster declarations are in effect. Under a Trump Administration interpretation, EAs raised each SNAP household’s benefits to the level of the SNAP maximum allotment, thereby helping households that don’t otherwise receive the maximum allotment. In April 2021, USDA revised the EA calculations to include the lowest-income households — those who already receive the maximum allotment or benefits close to the maximum allotment and so previously received no or only a small increase in their benefit level — so that each household now receives at least an additional $95 per month. When the EAs expire, the average SNAP benefit in fiscal year 2022 is estimated to decline by about $81 per person per month (or about $2.66 per day).

Policy Basics: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

In a typical month in 2018, SNAP helped more than 40 million low-income Americans afford a nutritionally adequate diet.

www.cbpp.org

December 20, 2018, President Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the Farm Bill) into law.

President Trump Signed the Farm Bill into Law One Year Ago Today, USDA Highlights Implementation Accomplishments to Date

(Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2019) – One year ago today, on December 20, 2018, President Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the Farm Bill) into law. Since that time, USDA has been working as quickly as possible to implement the 2018 Farm Bill. USDA leaders have...

www.usda.gov

Title IV of the 2018 Farm bill required that the USDA reevaluate the TFP by 2022 to better reflect current food costs, food composition, eating habits, and dietary guidelines.



Can you imagine that? What Dear Leader signed into law has consequences.

Biden administration announces the biggest increase to food stamps ever

Starting in October, food assistance benefits will increase by an average of 25% above pre-pandemic levels.

www.cnbc.com

 

[AntonToo]

Biden administration announces the biggest increase to food stamps ever

Starting in October, food assistance benefits will increase by an average of 25% above pre-pandemic levels.

www.cnbc.com

Which was a DIRECT RESULT of Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 signed by Trump.

Biden admin is simply implementing what 2018 AIA laid out. Do you get that now?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Which was a DIRECT RESULT of Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 signed by Trump.

Biden admin is simply implementing what 2018 AIA laid out. Do you get that now?

The Biden administration approved on Monday the biggest boost to food assistance benefits in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance.

 

[AntonToo]

The Biden administration approved on Monday the biggest boost to food assistance benefits in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance.

Yea AND?

2018 AIA bill required USDA to make SNAP adjustments based on study of economic data.

The study is complete and Biden administration is approving the specific adjustments it prescribed. What exactly did you want Biden to do? Quible about how much adjustment was required by law?

You don't seem to be able to connect what you read or maybe just don't want to.,

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yea AND?

2018 AIA bill required USDA to make SNAP adjustments based on study of economic data.

The study is complete and Biden administration is approving the specific adjustments it prescribed.

You don't seem to be able to connect what you read or maybe just really really really don't want to.,

No President has to abide to policies set by any former administration. From your paste of the article:

while federal and state emergency or disaster declarations are in effect

So what emergency or disaster are we facing today? Dementia himself recently said the covid pandemic is over.

 

[AntonToo]

No President has to abide to policies set by any former administration\

It's called laws, and yes, you do have to abide laws signed by former presidents.

2018 AIA required SNAP adjuments based on study of econmic data.

Was Biden glad to aprove it? Of course, but spare me the "Biden Is Spending Nearly 40% More On Food Stamps Than Trump" bullshit.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

It's called laws, and yes, you do have to abide laws signed by former presidents.

2018 AIA required SNAP adjuments based on study of econmic data.

Was Biden glad to aprove it? Of course, but spare me the "Biden Is Spending Nearly 40% More On Food Stamps Than Trump" bullshit.

Are you blind or just have major comprehension problems? I repeat (from your link) while federal and state emergency or disaster declarations are in effect.

 

[AntonToo]

Are you blind or just have major comprehension problems? I repeat (from your link) while federal and state emergency or disaster declarations are in effect.

They are TWO SEPARATE things.

You were talking about "The Biden administration approved on Monday the biggest boost to food assistance benefits in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance." That is a direct result of 2018 AIA legislation Trump signed into law.

And this is SEPARATE from temporary boost to SNAP due to Covid Trump administration implemented in second half of 2020 and continued by Biden admin untill now. Emergency Declaration should be expiring within a few weeks from now.

I've listed both in my original post in this thread.


Please tell me again about how I'm the one with comprehension problem.

 

[Independent thinker]

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity: Monthly benefits for Americans to buy food and promoting exercise and healthy eating included in ambitious White House project to requires MORE money from Congress​

• The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030
• The plan includes expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food
• The administration also seeks to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity and hypertension
• It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition
• Biden is hosting a conference on Wednesday on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969

...Under to the White House plan, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program eligibility would be expanded, children would get better access to free meals, and summer benefits would be extended to more schoolkids....

The Biden administration increased funding for food stamps nearly a year ago, but at the same time has purchased about half as much food as the Trump administration did in 2020, for food banks, schools and indigenous reservations, according to data obtained from a U.S. Agriculture Department(USDA) source.

Escalating food prices are eroding the reach of food stamps, which average around $231 per person per month in 2022, according to USDA data, sending more people to food banks, that are in turn receiving less food from the government.

Food stamp benefits for fiscal year 2022 are on track to reach $114.9 billion, down slightly from 2021 but 36.87% more than in 2020.

Biden's plan to end U.S. HUNGER by 2030 - and tackle obesity

The Biden admin is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Comments:
Biden must not have heard the old adage, "give a man a fish..."

Is anyone dying of starvation or malnutrition in the US? I help out an extremely poor disabled gentleman. He can go get a free meal every day.

Most importantly, just giving people crumbs creates a reliance on government support. There is no motivation to change one's situation.

The goal should be the opposite - to get everyone off of food stamps except the truly disabled. The root causes need to be addressed. Inflation is one of the main reasons people are struggling to afford food. Putting more people on food stamps is not something to celebrate.

Will the "more free stuff" ever end? Everything is a disaster, and Biden's fix is always to promise more free stuff in the face of economic collapse. He's going to hurt us all.

It almost seems as if the Biden Admin has set in motion a plan to quickly make lots more people reliant upon the government, and get more Democrat voters as a result.

I'm dreading this. If people need help, that's one thing. But, Americans work to put food on the table and a roof over their heads for themselves and for their children. As usual, Democratic policies make it easier and easier for Americans to not have to work, just at a time when companies everywhere are begging for help. It makes no sense to encourage people to not work because someone will take care of you.