The War on the Working Poor Has Begun The Biden-Trump standoff is dragging on, and while D.C. elites play chicken with each other’s egos, the American people are being starved into silence. Washington announced it will only pay out 50% of food stamp benefits for November. That’s not a misprint. Fifty. Percent. In a nation where grocery prices are through the roof and shelves are still half-empty, that’s not a reduction — that’s an act of war against the poor. And what’s the excuse this time? The government claims it’ll “tap into a $4.6 billion contingency fund” to scrape together partial payments. The full cost? Around $9 billion. They could’ve covered it all. But they didn’t. They chose to fund…

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