{"id":2012411,"date":"2023-08-25T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-reveals-why-food-is-getting-so-expensive-blame-what-biden-did-to-food-stamps\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:24:21","slug":"study-reveals-why-food-is-getting-so-expensive-blame-what-biden-did-to-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-reveals-why-food-is-getting-so-expensive-blame-what-biden-did-to-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Biden&#8217;s Actions on Food Stamps Drive Up Food Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-reveals-why-food-is-getting-so-expensive-blame-what-biden-did-to-food-stamps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012411&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Study Reveals\u200b Why Food Is Getting \u200bSo Expensive: Blame What Biden Did to \u200dFood Stamps<\/h2>\n<p>Joe \u2064Biden\u2019s \u2064massive increase in spending on \u200cfood stamps \u200c\u2014 the \u200bhighest increase in history \u2014 is also forcing regular Americans\u200b to spend more at the grocery \u2062store as the SNAP program has had the effect\u200d of driving\u2064 food prices sharply upward,\u200c a new study reports.<\/p>\n<p>The August report \u200dfrom the Foundation for \u200dGovernment Accountability (FGA)\u2064 found that Joe Biden\u2019s \u2063administration pushed\u2062 through a massive hike in\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-years-behind-washington-dc-metro-extension-gets-another-250m-totaling-6-billion\/\" title=\"Four Years Behind, Washington DC Metro Extension Gets Another 0M, Totaling  Billion\">food stamp spending<\/a> \u200dand even violated all \u200bthe\u2062 U.S.\u2063 Department of\u200c Agriculture\u2019s (USDA) own procedures in the effort to fast track the hike. And the increase has affected the price\u200c of food for everyone, not just the\u200b government.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064FGA report revealed that in 2021, the Biden\u2064 USDA enacted \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-administration-just-instituted-largest-food-stamp-benefit-increase-us-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biggest permanent increase<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-unemployment-joe-manchin-hit-the-nail-on-the-head\/\" title=\"On Unemployment, Joe Manchin Hit The Nail On The Head\">food stamp benefits<\/a> since the food stamp program was first started after passage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/STATUTE-78\/pdf\/STATUTE-78-Pg703.pdf#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1964 Food Stamp Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pentagon-troops-not-paying-enough-feed-apply-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">food stamp<\/a> spending skyrocketed to $119 billion,\u200d \u201ca\u200d sixfold increase over the last\u2062 two decades,\u201d the FGA reported. To break it down, the FGA noted that \u2064in 2019 the U.S. government was spending $4.5 billion a month on food stamps. But by 2022, it had risen to an astounding $11 billion monthly.<\/p>\n<p>There was also \u200ban \u201cemergency\u200c allotment\u201d that temporarily increased food \u200cstamps during the pandemic which drove \u200bthe \u2062spending to that $11\u200b billion mark FGA\u200d explained. Thankfully, that has been sunset, but \u2063even when\u2063 the emergency spending lapsed in February, spending \u200cremained nearly double the\u2063 2019 level and settled in at $8.6 billion a \u200bmonth.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Biden\u2019s food\u200c stamp spending will reach $1.1\u2063 trillion \u200bover the \u200cnext\u200d ten years, the highest ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Under \u2062Stacy\u200b Dean,\u200b the woman Biden appointed as \u200cthe Deputy Under Secretary for USDA\u2019s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, the department \u200dincreased benefits by an\u2064 average of 27 percent \u200cin 2022, an expansion\u200d set to cost the U.S. \u2062taxpayer $250 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>The FGA, \u200dwhich was founded\u200b in 2011 to study government overreach and suggest policies \u2064to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-stagflation-on-the-horizon\/\" title=\"Is Stagflation on the Horizon?\">reduce federal spending<\/a>, also said that the spending increase was pushed \u2062through despite the department\u2019s practices on policy implementation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn her quest to rush through this massive welfare\u2062 expansion, Ms. Dean and others in USDA leadership abandoned the\u2062 department\u2019s 45-year cost neutrality requirement, \u2064violated \u200dinternal \u200bcontrol standards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-reveals-why-food-is-getting-so-expensive-blame-what-biden-did-to-food-stamps\/\" title=\"Study: Biden's Actions on Food Stamps Drive Up Food Prices\">canceled formal peer-review processes<\/a>, ignored the department\u2019s chief economist, and forced\u200b the reevaluation \u2064team to cut corners and ignore\u200b best practices to meet \u2064Ms. Dean\u2019s accelerated timeline,\u201d the FGA wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the\u2063 Biden USDA did not submit the reports required by\u200b law \u200dto Congress and the Government Accountability \u2062Office (GAO) before unilaterally enacting the \u2062changes.\u2063 This, the FGA\u200c says, makes Biden\u2019s food stamp spending\u200d hikes actually illegal.<\/p>\n<p>All this doesn\u2019t \u2062just have an\u2063 effect on government spending. In fact, the massive increase in \u200bfood stamp spending costs all of us, not \u200cjust \u200bin higher taxes, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/americans-give-biden-reality-check-zero-percent-inflation-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflationary pressures<\/a> that drives up the cost of \u200cfood.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the\u2063 World Bank, for instance,\u200c tallied the data \u200cfrom 2.6 million barcodes that captured costs to consumers between Dec. 2019 and\u2063 March of this year. The data indicates that prices\u200b have increased \u200bby\u200c about 24 percent.\u200b That correlates to an increase \u2064of one percent for every 12.5 percent increase in food\u2062 stamp spending, FGA said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064FGA ended its report saying that if Congress puts \u2064a halt\u2062 to Biden\u2019s illegal \u200chike in food \u200cstamp spending and rolls it all back to 2019\u200c levels, it could \u200csave the taxpayers $193 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n<h3>The \u2062Rising Cost of Food<\/h3>\n<p>The FGA is 100 percent right about\u200b the \u200cwild rise in \u200dfood prices. Just \u2064this month\u200b it was revealed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidenflations-latest-victim-breakfast-food-prices-skyrocket-highs-not-seen-since-1979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost of a typical American\u2063 breakfast<\/a> has\u2063 skyrocketed\u2063 to \u200bhighs not seen since \u2062the worst of\u200b Jimmy Carter\u2019s Stagflation years.<\/p>\n<p>Eggs, \u2062for instance have gone up an astounding\u2062 46.8 percent, butter \u2064is up 23 percent, and fresh fruits are up \u200c26 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 costs for our\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/thanks-joe-biden-cost-fourth-july-cookout-reaches-record-high-thanks-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Independence Day cookouts<\/a> soared this year, too.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of beer was up 8 percent; soft drinks, up 14 percent; bread, up 22 percent;\u200b ice cream, up 9 percent; processed cheese,\u200d up 10 percent; and potato chips, up 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over all, the spending on our \u200cJuly Fourth cook out \u200dsupplies averaged $93.34 in 2023, which was up $9.22 from\u200b last\u200b year\u2019s $84.12, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/research-insights\/holiday-data-and-trends\/independence-day\/independence-day-data-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Retail\u200c Federation survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064pressures have been slamming consumers throughout \u2062Biden\u2019s time\u200b in the White \u2064House.\u2062 In\u200d February of\u200c last year, food \u200bcommodities had seen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/experts-another-substantial-jump-food-prices-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 percent hike<\/a> \u200dand that pushed food prices up for\u200c everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden regime may be claiming that it is \u2062\u201chelping\u201d the poor with this \u200bmassive hike in food stamp spending, but in reality, all he is doing is hurting the whole\u2062 country. After all, even his food \u2062stamp \u200brecipients are getting less food for their welfare allowances thanks to Biden\u2019s economically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-inflation-numbers-come-higher-expected-prices-continue-climb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disastrous<\/a> policies.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/study-reveals-food-getting-expensive-blame-biden-food-stamps\/\">Study Reveals Why Food Is Getting So Expensive: Blame\u200c What Biden Did to Food Stamps<\/a> \u2064appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u2064 Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reveals that Joe Biden&#8217;s record-breaking surge in food stamp spending is burdening everyday Americans with higher grocery bills. The SNAP program&#8217;s unintended consequence is skyrocketing food prices, according to the report. This alarming finding highlights the impact of Biden&#8217;s policies on the economy and the financial strain it places on households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2012412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}