As a Republican, I was initially delighted by Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” particularly with the cuts it made to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which will result in as many as 22 million families losing their food stamp benefits, with the money very smartly being redirected to the pockets of billionaires. This was just the kind of dynamic leadership our country needed. However, the downside of this bill quickly made itself evident when I considered how it would affect my weekly shopping. After all, how am I supposed to judge what poor people buy at the grocery store now?

Did Trump even stop to consider how this move would affect people like me, who love nothing more than to click their tongues disapprovingly when the person in front of them uses food stamps to purc

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