Trump's USDA Has a New Plan to Fight Hunger: Make More People Go Hungry

A proposed rule could strip 6.3 million people of food assistance and make millions of families prove they're poor enough to feed their kids.

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THE LUNCH LINE, U.S.A. (The Daily Whatever Press)—The Trump administration wants to kick 6.3 million people off food stamps, and they’ve got the goddamn audacity to call it a loophole.

Here’s what’s happening: the USDA published a proposed rule to gut broad-based categorical eligibility, or BBCE. Since 2008, 46 s…