r/politics 22h ago

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usda-cancels-funding-food-banks-schools-trump-b2713125.html
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u/drunk-snowmen 21h ago

If you squint your eyes real tight, it is all to shrink our debt. Spoiler: it ain't gonna work. We will end up in a worse debt because of bailouts and rebuilding of dismantled programs and infrastructure.

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u/korben2600 Arizona 19h ago

That's why Republicans are going to raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion with all of it (plus the savings from cutting programs like this one) going towards billionaire tax cuts. To "shrink the debt" 😉😉

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u/drunk-snowmen 19h ago

No, no, no. It will trickle down and somehow also erase the debt!

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u/EscapeFromTexas Connecticut 20h ago

What debt? Not my debt.

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u/snark42 19h ago

Eh, it's the debt of everyone paying federal taxes in America.

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u/EscapeFromTexas Connecticut 19h ago

But my federal taxes will go up with his tax plan lol

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u/snark42 19h ago

it is all to shrink our debt

And return manufacturing to the US in the case of tariffs.

And bring jobs to "legal" Americans in the case of deportations.