Food Stamps Slashed to Pay for Teacher Jobs Bill
Updated at 1:50 p.m. ETDemocrats are poised to pass a bill today that will provide $26 billion in additional funding to help states cover Medicaid expenses and teacher salaries. To pay for the bill, however, they are accelerating the scale-back of food stamp payments -- at a time when a record number of Americans are relying on food stamps.
In an unusual move, the House of Representatives interrupted its August recess this week to return to Washington to pass this aid bill. The legislation, which passed in the Senate last week, extends programs enacted in the stimulus package, with $16 billion for state health care programs and $10 billion to help school boards avoid teacher layoffs.
CBS NewsKliphnote:
You have to have your priority's. Either feed the hungry or pay the teachers. The Democrats choose to pay the teachers. The union vote counts more than the hungry.
Big surprise.
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