grio perryjuni. perry, what is behind these cuts to the snap program? what s behind them is there was an increase in snap funding because of the stimulus of 2009. and that extension that increase has ended now. neither party really fought to keep this up. it s not as though the republicans didn t push to keep this money up. white house and democrats didn t either. you basically had a situation in washington where neither party this wasn t a divide in the issue but both parties sort of tacitly agreed they were going to let this increase go even though it affects millions of americans as we talked about. yeah. a few more numbers to go over with you elise. 8% of food stamps recipients are in homes with seniors, kids or the disabled. economists have found, listen to this, for every dollar in snap spending $1.70 is generated for the local community. husband republicans want to cut that additional money from the