{"id":14257,"date":"2013-03-15T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=14257"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:50:55","slug":"budget-committee-democrats-vote-to-maintain-food-stamp-promotions-in-foreign-embassies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/budget-committee-democrats-vote-to-maintain-food-stamp-promotions-in-foreign-embassies\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Committee Democrats Vote to Maintain Food Stamp Promotions in Foreign Embassies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VCG2RJKrWw?rel=0\" height=\"270\" width=\"360\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT!?<\/strong> Food stamp programs offered in &#8220;foreign&#8221;(you know who) embassies?! Whose idea was this? They&#8217;re not even Americans, that&#8217;s OUR MONEY <strong>WTF<\/strong>!!! How many illegals find their way into their embassy and get this aid?<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senate Democrats block effort to end USDA\/Mexico food stamp promotion partnership<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/03\/15\/senate-democrats-block-effort-to-end-usdamexico-food-stamp-promotion-partnership\/\">by Caroline May|DailyCaller<\/a><br \/>\nDuring the Senate Budget Committee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Thursday markup of the Senate budget resolution, Democrats prevented an effort to block funds for the Agriculture Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153partnership\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the Mexican government, which is aimed at promoting nutrition assistance programs among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.<\/p>\n<p>In a party-line 12 to 10 vote, the Democrats on the committee rejected a proposal to prevent funding for such endeavors from ranking member Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has spoken out against the program in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Contrary to sound policy, the United States is spending money advertising food stamp benefits in foreign consulates,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Session\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staff said in a Thursday evening press release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This amendment would prohibit any funds from being spent on this controversial promotion campaign.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, the USDA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnership was relatively unknown, with only a few mentions of it in public agency materials.<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/03\/15\/senate-democrats-block-effort-to-end-usdamexico-food-stamp-promotion-partnership\/\">..read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT!? Food stamp programs offered in &#8220;foreign&#8221;(you know who) embassies?! Whose idea was this? They&#8217;re not even Americans, that&#8217;s OUR MONEY WTF!!! How many illegals find their way into their embassy and get this aid?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[257,13,8260],"tags":[7423,25799,5372,25800,1423,2296,25803,25804,25805,25806,25802,15485,25801,8390,7513],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}