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USDA Pushes Reforms After Study Links Liquor and Tobacco Shops to SNAP Fraud Risks
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Just The News, Approved, National

USDA Pushes Reforms After Study Links Liquor and Tobacco Shops to SNAP Fraud Risks

By: Steven Richards | Just the News More than 5,000 liquor and smoke shops were approved as retailers under SNAP, raising fraud concerns. There's no way to determine how much alcohol, tobacco, or other "non-compliant" goods have been sold nationwide. At least 20 states refuse to share data with the feds. Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression.  But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved retailers, increasing the possibility of fraud, new research shows.  The longest ever government shutdown, which ended after 43 days of deadlock, thrust the federal food stamp program into the national spotlight as millions of recipients went without benefits. But...
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Government Shutdown Exposes Massive Abuse in EBT System
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Government Shutdown Exposes Massive Abuse in EBT System

By Matt Walsh | The Daily Wire Many people receiving food stamps would rather rob you than have to pay for their own groceries. Ever since the government shutdown began a month ago, it’s been a challenge to identify anyone in real life — outside of government employees — who has noticed or cared in any meaningful way. Even Democrats don’t seem particularly bothered by the shutdown. They’ve been spending most of their time lately complaining about the renovations that are underway in the East Wing of the White House — which is the kind of thing you complain about when you desperately need to find something to complain about, but you have absolutely no other options whatsoever. Even if you normally don’t care much about how the government spends your money, this is the kind of dev...
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Section 8 Pays Colorado Rents Near $4,000 Per Month as Critics Call for Reform
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Section 8 Pays Colorado Rents Near $4,000 Per Month as Critics Call for Reform

By Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square (The Center Square) - Taxpayers are covering rents of up to $3,879 per month in Colorado, leading taxpayer advocates to question the growing duration of federal Section 8 housing choice voucher (HCV) usage. "Section 8 needs to focus on lifting people out of the trap of poverty, not putting them into the lap of luxury," said National Taxpayers Union president Pete Sepp in an interview with The Center Square. "It's unfair to ask taxpayers who can't afford mortgages or rents of nearly $4,000 per month to foot the bill for subsidies amounting to that much." HCV recipients remain in the program for an average of 15.1 years – that’s up from an average of 12.4 years in 2000, according to a 2024 federal report. When asked about a 2026 budget propo...
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Colorado braces for $858M healthcare shift as feds pull back Medicaid, SNAP funding, prompting special session
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Colorado braces for $858M healthcare shift as feds pull back Medicaid, SNAP funding, prompting special session

By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics Colorado legislators met at the state Capitol on Friday morning to review how the recently-adopted federal budget will affect health issues in the state. The review is among the steps lawmakers are taking in preparation for an expected special session. Multiple sources have told Colorado Politics that the special session will take place during the week of Aug. 18. Friday's meeting wasn't publicly announced on the legislature's website; the General Assembly had earlier cut funding for many interim committees due to budget constraints.  Senate Democrats announced on their website an "informal meeting" of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, which drew a dozen lawmakers and dozens of lobbyists, journalists and others to the ...
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Ganahl: What’s inside the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’—and why it’s a game-changer for families and freedom
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Ganahl: What’s inside the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’—and why it’s a game-changer for families and freedom

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice They’re calling it the “Big Beautiful Bill”—and whether you love it or hate it, it’s the boldest shakeup to our tax and spending system since Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. Officially titled the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, this legislation does a lot: extends the Trump tax cuts, rewrites how safety net programs work, beefs up border and defense spending, and trims down the green energy handouts. There’s plenty to cheer—and plenty to argue over. Here’s a quick tour of what’s in the final version. Tax cuts for working families and seniors The Big Beautiful Bill locks in the 2017 marginal rate cuts and doubles the standard deduction, giving most families broad-based relief. The Child Tax Credit also gets a temporary ...
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HHS shuts door on illegal immigrants’ access to taxpayer-funded benefits
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HHS shuts door on illegal immigrants’ access to taxpayer-funded benefits

By Natalia Mittelstadt | Just the News “For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday banned illegal immigrants from accessing the agency's taxpayer-funded benefits. Since 1998, HHS has interpreted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to let illegal immigrants use certain federal public benefits, according to the department. On Thursday, HHS announced that it has formally rescinded the interpretation that began under the Clinton administration. “For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration,” HHS Secretary Robe...
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