Trump Administration Moves to End Food Stamps for 3 Million People
- Pelosi blasts White House for ‘act of staggering callousness’
- Shares in discount grocers decline following announcement
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The Trump administration moved to end food stamp benefits for 3.1 million people, the day after the president reached a deal with Democrats to raise federal spending by tens of billions of dollars for the next two years.
The proposed rule curtailing food assistance, announced Tuesday, drew a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called it an “act of staggering callousness.”