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BREAKING: @AGKarlRacine, @NewYorkStateAG & a coalition of 22 Attorneys General have sent a 🔥 letter calling on Trump & Ag. @SecretarySonny Perdue to immediately suspend a rulemaking that could slash Food Stamps for 3.1 million people amid #COVIDー19 if allowed to take effect.
Here’s the full letter: oag.dc.gov/sites/default/…

#handsoffsnap
Refresher on what the rule would do, as well as the politics (like how this is another instance of Trump slashing critical programs by fiat when he doesn’t get his way in Congress)
It seems hardly a day goes by without massive advocacy needed on all cylinders to keep the Trump admin from slashing Food Stamps—even in the middle of a pandemic:
Thank you for your leadership @AGKarlRacine @NewYorkStateAG & all who signed on (and who joined the lawsuit to block Trump’s previous rule)
“It is vital to our national response to this crisis that people who are supposed to stay home be able to have food on the table at home....” #handsoffsnap
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Rebecca Vallas
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As U.S. jobless claims skyrocket amid #COVID19, thousands of unemployed Floridians have been unable to access benefits due to a broken claims system.

But the system's working just as state GOP leaders intended.

And Florida's just the tip of the iceberg.

(AN OP-ED & A THREAD):
First, the op-ed (h/t @ericmgarcia for the great edit): washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
“It’s a sh-- sandwich, and it was designed that way by @SenRickScott.”

Per an adviser to FL @GovRonDeSantis, Florida's UI system was deliberately designed to “make it harder for people to get benefits so the numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”

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Rebecca Vallas
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in light of the news that the Trump admin has FINALLY hit pause on taking Food Stamps away from 700,000 jobless workers in the middle of the #COVID19 pandemic... i put together a short history of the past month’s events, to put this in full ugly context:

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MARCH 12: Trump's USDA confirms it has considered whether to suspend its Food Stamp cuts due to #COVID19 19—and has decided to let them take effect April 1.

MARCH 14: A federal judge issues a temporary injunction blocking Trump’s Food Stamp cuts from taking effect, noting the immense cruelty of stripping jobless workers of food amid the global #COVID19 pandemic:

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Rebecca Vallas
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Holy hell. Politico is reporting that @SenRickScott, back when he was governor, DELIBERATELY BUILT FLORIDA’S UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM TO FAIL.

“It was about making it harder for people to get benefits so the unemployment numbers were low to give the gov. something to brag about.”
Then, after deliberately building a system that didn’t work so as to keep the unemployment numbers low, @SenRickScott—and @GovRonDeSantis after him, so he’s complicit here—ignored years of audits warning of major system problems:
Now hundreds of thousands of Floridians can’t get jobless benefits—at a time of record-high unemployment, amid a global pandemic—because the system is working precisely as designed.
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