Outrage Over Dems Raiding Food Stamps to Fund Bailout

Tension builds over $12B stripped from the food stamps program to help fund the $26B state-aid bill, which has some Dems and advocacy groups cringing at the notion of cutting back on one necessity help fund what critics are calling a gift to teacher and government worker unions.

(FoxNews.com) - Some Democrats are upset and advocacy groups are outraged over the raiding of the food-stamp cupboard to fund a state-aid bailout that some call a gift to teachers and government union workers.

House members convened Tuesday and passed the multibillion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins, keeping more than 160,000 teachers on the job, the Obama administration says.

But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill, prompting some Democrats to cringe at the notion of cutting back on one necessity to pay for another. The federal assistance program currently helps 41 million Americans.

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