{"id":1327,"date":"2026-08-05T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:36:40","slug":"trump-usda-chief-celebrates-5-million-people-losing-food-aid-as-pretty-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Trump USDA Chief Celebrates 5 Million People Losing Food Aid as \u201cPretty Big Win\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, <\/span><\/i><i><span>support us with a donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> of any size.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1325\">Michigan Supreme Court Squashes Plan to Update Line 5 Pipeline<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins bragged on Tuesday that the Trump administration has now \u201cmoved 5 million people off food stamps,\u201d an outcome that she hailed as a significant victory even amid mounting reports of families with children struggling to afford groceries after losing federal assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those of us that love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it\u2019s a pretty big win,\u201d Rollins said during an event in Minnesota, referring to the massive reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment since passage of the 2025 Republican budget law, which enacted the largest food aid cuts in US history and expanded SNAP work requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a liberal think tank, has estimated that more than 4.5 million people have lost SNAP benefits since President Donald Trump signed the GOP budget package into law last summer. That total includes at least 1.5 million children.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Rollins\u2019 claim that people are moving off SNAP because they found strong employment, CBPP noted in a recent analysis that \u201cunemployment nationwide has been flat at about 4 percent since July 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1323\">Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt best, it\u2019s down in 13 states and the District of Columbia by less than 1 percentage point,\u201d the think tank observed. \u201cIt\u2019s very unlikely that reduced need is driving the decline in SNAP participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katie Bergh, a senior policy analyst at CBPP, responded to Rollins\u2019 latest boast about large-scale loss of SNAP benefits by pointing to a July <em>New York Times <\/em>story featuring Dee McDonald, a cancer survivor and caregiver of three kids who recently lost federal assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, \u2018a pretty big win,\u2019\u201d Bergh wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=1321\">Abdul El-Sayed Triumphs Over Haley Stevens in $60M Loss for AIPAC, Corporations<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 GOP budget law enacted the largest food aid cuts in US history and expanded work requirements for SNAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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