According to a new study, Joe Biden‘s big increase in food stamp expenditures, the largest increase in history, is pushing average Americans to pay more at the supermarket since the SNAP program has had the impact of driving food costs considerably upward.
According to an August study from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), Joe Biden’s administration pushed through a significant increase in food stamp spending and even violated all the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) own procedures in order to expedite the jump. And the price of food has risen for everyone, not just the government.
In a nutshell, you are paying more to feed your family because Joe Biden is buying votes from people on the dole. The people running the Biden administration either don’t know how the economy works or they do and the result is intentional.
According to the FGA study, the Biden USDA implemented the most significant permanent increase in food stamp benefits since the program’s inception following the passing of the 1964 Food Stamp Act in 2021.
Food stamp spending is expected to reach $119 billion by 2022, a “sixfold increase over the last two decades,” according to the FGA. To break it down, the FGA stated that the US government spent $4.5 billion per month on food stamps in 2019. However, by 2022, it had increased to an incredible $11 billion every month.
There was also an “emergency allotment” that temporarily raised food stamps during the pandemic, which FGA stated drove spending to the $11 billion threshold. Thankfully, that is no longer the case, but even when the emergency expenditure terminated in February, spending remained over double what it was in 2019 and settled in at $8.6 billion each month.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe government has screwed things up so badly that more and more people are now dependent on your tax dollars. This is by design. Barack Obama did almost the same thing. Obama lowered the standards for getting onto government payout programs so that more people would vote for him. This is what Democrats do.
Furthermore, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that Biden’s food stamp spending will reach $1.1 trillion over the next ten years, a record high.
Under Stacy Dean, the woman Biden appointed as Deputy Under Secretary for USDA’s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, the department enhanced benefits by an average of 27 percent in 2022, a cost to taxpayers of $250 billion over the next decade.
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The FGA, which was established in 2011 to analyze government overreach and propose solutions to limit federal spending, also stated that the spending rise was pushed through despite the department’s policy implementation methods.
“In her quest to rush through this massive welfare expansion, Ms. Dean and others in USDA leadership abandoned the department’s 45-year cost neutrality requirement, violated internal control standards, canceled formal peer-review processes, ignored the department’s chief economist, and forced the reevaluation team to cut corners and ignore best practices to meet Ms. Dean’s accelerated timeline,” the FGA wrote.
Worse, before unilaterally executing the modifications, the Biden USDA failed to submit the appropriate reports to Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO). According to the FGA, this makes Biden’s increases in food stamp spending illegal.
Wouldn’t the Democrats impeach Trump if he did something like this? Hello? Republicans?
All of this has an impact on more than just government spending. In fact, the large increase in food stamp spending costs everyone, not just through greater taxes, but also through inflationary forces that drive up food prices. Joe Biden doesn’t care because he knows the people who will now vote for him don’t give a hoot about the long-term effects on the economy because, in their minds, they’re getting free money.
