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USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to People Hit by Trump's Food Stamp Freeze (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess I'm the designated article-reader today. TL;DR: Businesses need government approval to process EBT payments for the SNAP program. The regime is strictly interpreting a regulation that's intended to prevent price-gouging SNAP recipients to inflict maximum cruelty by preventing discounts instead. It could enforce the rule by revoking a store's SNAP-EBT approval.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    If the SNAP program is supposedly unable to function because the government is shut down, how is it still somehow finding the money and manpower to enforce its regulations?

    No money or manpower to help the public, yet somehow plenty to harm.

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