Cartoons: How President Trump the Grinch cut food stamps, incensed North Korean leader

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With the holiday season underway, political cartoonists are taking aim at President Trump’s moves to cut food stamps and Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s recent threat to re-deploy “dotard” from its stockpile of insults with references to Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

The lion’s share of the cartoons address the Trump administration’s move to cut 700,000 people from the federal food stamps program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is stiffening guidelines defining where recipients can reside to be eligible for waivers and standards for demonstrating whether an area has enough jobs to justify a waiver. CalMatters reported how the changes could disproportionately impact Californians who receive food stamp benefits via CalFresh, the state-run equivalent of the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP).

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue argued the proposal would eliminate what he called a “loophole,” to reduce fraud and save the federal government money — more than $9 billion over the next five years, according to one estimate.

The administration’s move on food stamps this month is the latest in an effort that goes back at least to last year, when a Washington Post editorial analysis said budget and policy proposals from the White House and House Republicans would “hit his voters hard.”

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