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Trump solves hunger

Greenbeard

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He's done it again! Faced with an intractable problem his policies are exacerbating, Trump found a way to make the problem go away.

Perhaps ending measurement of food insecurity just as the administration cuts nutritional assistance to families is just a warmup, surely it makes as much sense to stop measuring uninsurance as the administration takes away their health care, too.

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity
Two months after pushing through Congress the largest food stamp cuts in the program’s history, the Trump administration has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household food insecurity.

The move by the Agriculture Department strips the government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, and will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming cuts in nutritional aid.

The department’s report has been published every year for three decades, and grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the United States had a hunger problem.
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The Agriculture Department said in a statement on Saturday that the report had become “overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”

The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.
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In a sharp break with precedent, President Trump has aggressively contested sources of government data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”
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Greenbeard said:
He's done it again! Faced with an intractable problem his policies are exacerbating, Trump found a way to make the problem go away.

Perhaps ending measurement of food insecurity just as the administration cuts nutritional assistance to families is just a warmup, surely it makes as much sense to stop measuring uninsurance as the administration takes away their health care, too.

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity
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“overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”​

Sounds like good reasons to toss it in the trash.
 
Mycroft said:
“overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”​

Sounds like good reasons to toss it in the trash to me.
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Tossing hungry families in the trash does seem to be the official policy of this administration.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Just claim that it’s transitory, thus taking action isn’t required. ;)
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I have to admit, I really enjoyed watching Biden diehards cling to the inflation is "transitory" rhetoric.

And while it was a spike, backed by the numbers, just about everyone on the hill went out of their way to lie about why it was happening.

In this case with killing the reporting, Trump skipped a few steps to get to the solved part.
 
OrphanSlug said:
I have to admit, I really enjoyed watching Biden diehards cling to the inflation is "transitory" rhetoric.

And while it was a spike, backed by the numbers, just about everyone on the hill went out of their way to lie about why it was happening.

In this case with killing the reporting, Trump skipped a few steps to get to the solved part.
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Weather reports don’t change the weather. ;)
 
Greenbeard said:
Tossing hungry families in the trash does seem to be the official policy of this administration.
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You didn't read the article, did you?

Nobody said anything about "tossing hungry families in the trash".
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Just claim that it’s transitory, thus taking action isn’t required. ;)
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Just claim that its "neutral", and yet keep kissing trumptard arse daily. LMAO.
 
Mycroft said:
“overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”​

Sounds like good reasons to toss it in the trash.
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Although it is he right-wing that politicizes it.
 
Mycroft said:
“overly politicized, and upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”​

Sounds like good reasons to toss it in the trash.
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at this point in time just because the Trump Administration or Trump says something does not necessarily make it so.
Trump and his staff say a great deal but rarely provide anything to back up what they say is true.

where is the evidence it was "overly politicized" and that evidence it is "unnecessary" to carry out the work of the department?

Time will tell if President Trump is correct on this. Let's see how things are in another 2-3 years.
 
mike2810 said:
at this point in time just because the Trump Administration or Trump says something does not necessarily make it so.
Trump and his staff say a great deal but rarely provide anything to back up what they say is true.

where is the evidence it was "overly politicized" and that evidence it is "unnecessary" to carry out the work of the department?

Time will tell if President Trump is correct on this. Let's see how things are in another 2-3 years.
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If the news article isn't telling you what you want to know, you should be questioning those who wrote the article.
 
mike2810 said:
at this point in time just because the Trump Administration or Trump says something does not necessarily make it so.
Trump and his staff say a great deal but rarely provide anything to back up what they say is true.

where is the evidence it was "overly politicized" and that evidence it is "unnecessary" to carry out the work of the department?

Time will tell if President Trump is correct on this. Let's see how things are in another 2-3 years.
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The evidence is in the same place where @Mycroft kept his incontrovertible proof of massive 2020 electoral fraud, of course.
 
A few more strategic mergers / outright purchases / intimidations, and we might hear a lot less "bad news."
 
Mycroft said:
If the news article isn't telling you what you want to know, you should be questioning those who wrote the article.
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Do you use only one source?
Like Trump, you seem unable to back up the statement made.

Have a good day.
 
mike2810 said:
where is the evidence it was "overly politicized" and that evidence it is "unnecessary" to carry out the work of the department?
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It's supposed to be politicized, mediating debates about how, and whether, to address major social problems is the point of our political system.

Best to understand Chairman Trump's elimination of the data in the context of his larger project of destroying our political system.
 
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