While we're all focused on the crisis at our southern border, Trump's admin is proposing a massive reorganization of federal agencies as part of his "drain the swamp" campaign rhetoric. This will include adding the word "welfare"
into the SNAP program.
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into the SNAP program.
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Perhaps the most controversial of the proposals, would be the move of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, from Agriculture to Health and Human Services, with the latter department renamed to something that includes the word “welfare." 2/
More changes include:
Privatizing the Postal Service.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to "improve" services to citizens... 3/
Privatizing the Postal Service.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to "improve" services to citizens... 3/
Relocating more staff and offices outside the National Capital Region.
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers. 4/
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers. 4/
As usual, Trump seems intent on proactively limiting every dep't and agency that could potentially limit his powers to sub-dictatorship and rebranding critical safety net programs such as SNAP and Medicaid to hand-out status. Keep an eye on this, folks. He'll do it if we let him.
