If you thought the Trump administration couldn’t fuck up its response to the potentially deadly coronavirus pandemic that has swept across the globe, you were wrong. Just this morning, President Chucklefuck took to Twitter to blame the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his predecessor for the outbreak, even though it’s Trump who still insists on slashing funds for the CDC.
Trump seems to believe the Hunger Games should play out in real life while the virus has gripped 44 states, and Democrats are calling on the president to stop doing shitty things to the needy.
Democrats have urged the Trump administration to delay a planned food benefit cut due to the rapidly expanding coronavirus outbreak, but administration officials have said no, according to HuffPo.
Starting next month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will tighten rules for unemployed adults who don’t have minor children or disabilities, a policy that will shrink food benefit enrollment by 700,000, or about 2% annually.”
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Trump proposed ending payroll taxes through the end of the year — which happens to be until after the election — that will do nothing to help our country’s most vulnerable. We wouldn’t even have to be having this conversation if that freeloading knobhead in the White House had not gifted the wealthiest Americans with a tax cut the minute he got into office.
Democrats have a stimulus plan of their own that is more expansive than the GOP’s and includes paid sick leave, broadened unemployment insurance, free coronavirus testing, and treatment for those who cannot afford medical help, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems dead set on dismissing it.
However, Democrats are still planning to vote Thursday on the economic stimulus bill that includes a provision suspending so-called “work requirements” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, according to the outlet.
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) called the impending food benefit cut “particularly cruel” in light of the coronavirus outbreak that will likely cause large numbers of Americans to lose their jobs or find it necessary to avoid work amid the pandemic.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue — a Trump nominee — declined to postpone the rule. Cruelty is a key feature of the Trump administration.
Businesses are going dark — Broadway plays, sports events, Disneyland, and cruises, to name a few — so expect the unemployment rate to soar while the Americans relying on food benefits scramble to find work that isn’t there.
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