Legislative Democrats and Nevada bureaucrats are sounding the alarm about federal food stamp reforms passed in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” This is a dying gasp of the status quo. In fact, the changes made in the legislation to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are already working as intended.

On Wednesday, officials with the Nevada Department of Human Services told an interim legislative committee that more than a quarter of the state’s 505,000 food stamp recipients could lose benefits under the new law. That’s a worst-case scenario. Notably, that includes just 10,000 people who are in the country illegally, a figure that’s likely low. Apparently the rest are improperly receiving benefits or would be unwilling to comply with the popular requirement that abl

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