(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Think the decades-old food stamps program deserves to be in the callous, capricious cross hairs of Elon Musk , President Donald Trump and the latter’s spineless sycophants in Congress? Then you don’t know someone like Ndaneh Luseni. The 34-year-old Alexandria woman, a single mother with three children, depends on the nourishment that food stamps provide. Luseni receives only $83 a month in benefits from what’s formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Yet, that money allows her to help make ends meet on a regular basis. SNAP pays for essentials like eggs, milk, bread and juice in her household. “It provides just some sort of assistance, where I can sleep and I know the kids will have something in the house .
.. some stability,” Luseni, a clinical technician at a Northern Virginia hospital, told me this week.
She brings home $600, after taxes, every two weeks from her job. Congressional Republicans are hellbent on gutting the program that dates to the New Deal and similar safety nets for the poor, in part to extend tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans . As if the latter even needs them.
It’s plutocratic porn at its worst. Trump and his wealthy allies want to yank benefits from low-income workers, disabled Americans and children so they can treat themselves to a sixth car, a third house or yet another international excursion. The prevailing plan treats SNAP recipients as a nuisance, forc.