The Hartford CourantBy Christopher KeatingMarch 18, 2025Two U.S. senators are fighting to help Connecticut farmers and schools avoid more than $10 million in federal cuts from President Donald Trump’s administration.Notices have been sent out about the cuts for two programs that affect farmers and consumers who are struggling to find affordable food.Some families have had difficulty paying $9 for a dozen eggs at a time of continuing inflation. Many working families are struggling to balance their budgets and 470,000 residents of Connecticut are classified as “food insecure” in a sharp jump from last year, officials said.“People are working. That’s not the issue,” said Jason Jakubowski, president of FoodShare, a nonprofit that distributes food across the state. “They have two, sometimes three jobs, but it’s hard to make ends meet in today’s world. … We live in a world where a box of Twinkies is cheaper than a bushel of apples.”Jakubowski stepped forward Monday at a press conference in Bloomfield with U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal about cuts being made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to the Local Food for Schools Program, known as LFS, and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, known as LFPA.
These cuts were made by a billionaire, for billionaires, and it was signed into law by a billionaire!
“Contrary to popular conservative impression, the folks who line up for food assistance in this state are almost universally folks that are working,” Murphy told reporters at the Foodshare warehouse. “The problem in this state is not employment. We’re at near full employment. The problem is that work doesn’t pay in this country. The cost of living is too high. Wages have been flat for too long. You can be working fulltime, and you can be working two jobs and not have enough money to pay the bills, to be able to put food on the table.”
The Republicans are all about "Me" instead of "Us" the people of the United States,
“This is cruelty for the point of cruelty,” Murphy told reporters. “These are relatively small programs that go a long way toward both supporting farmers and supporting families. By ending these two programs, all you’re doing is hurting farmers and jeopardizing the food security of our families.”Murphy added, “These programs don’t save big amounts of money for the federal government. They don’t balance the budget. They are effective, efficient and affordable programs that help families in need. This is obviously a really dire moment in which the president is willfully violating the Constitution and ignoring spending decisions made by Congress and intentionally throwing this country into economic and political crisis just for the sake of crisis.”
“These programs don’t save big amounts of money..." all the savings went to Trump's golf junkets almost every weekend since he was elected to Mar-a-Lago to play golf at $4 million each time he goes down there, not only does it cost the federal government money but also the local polices who have to spend out an estimated $240,000 per day to provide security for the President when he's in town!
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement. “Trump and Musk are continuing to withhold essential funding in violation of court orders, and our children, farmers and small businesses are bearing the brunt of it.”
In the Republicans' minds food stamps recipients are all fat, lazy, minorities welfare queens but as the senator from Connecticut said they are really the working poor... many of them working multiple jobs to make ends meet. The are just like Scrooge McDuck.
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