BREAKING: Trump has issued yet another massive regulatory attack on Food Stamps, again sidestepping Congress to force cuts by fiat—since he didn’t get his way in the Farm Bill last year. More than 3 million people stand to lose food assistance.

Trump’s new proposed rule would dramatically weaken the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), by gutting a wonky-sounding but vital provision called “broad-based categorical eligibility.”

This one’s worth dewonkifying, so here we go.

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— Rebecca Vallas (@rebeccavallas) July 23, 2019