CBS News Scaremongers Viewers Over SNAP Work Requirement

A lot of what’s reported on legacy community information nowadays isn’t a lot information as it’s anti-news- propaganda meant to disinform and/or make viewers afraid of one thing. Such is the case with CBS’s report on adjustments to the Supplemental Dietary Help Program (SNAP) that aired on tonight’s Night Information Plus. 

Watch as CBS tries to gaslight the general public into believing that asking able-bodied People to search for work earlier than making use of for public help is a “minimize”:

JOHN DICKERSON: So, Jo-Ling, let’s begin with what are among the new guidelines and what’s modified with the SNAP program since this laws handed?

JO-LING KENT: John, we will begin to see these adjustments rolled out over the following couple of years. New work necessities went into impact on Labor Day. And the largest change is that non-disabled adults with out independents(sic) have to satisfy a piece requirement till the age of 64. That is ten years longer than the present 54-year age requirement. And we have additionally seen some exemptions additionally eliminated for some dad and mom. In order we zoom out that 2.4 million determine that you just cited, these folks will lose their SNAP advantages in line with the CBO. And that is an estimate. And that features lots of of hundreds of households with youngsters, and households throughout all 50 states may lose an estimated 72 to $231 a month. And if you concentrate on that, that is a significant hit in the case of your weekly grocery price range. A number of meals banks within the metro areas throughout the U.S. are also- they’re bracing for a rise in want. We will see a double whammy in the case of cuts in SNAP advantages, plus meals costs persevering with to stay excessive with inflation so cussed, John.

From the outset, the largest change to SNAP eligibility comes from folks remaining beneath the work requirement for a further 10 years- identical as you and me. And, in all equity, the work requirement doesn’t imply precise work. It additionally encompasses on the lookout for work, or finding out in lieu of labor. However that is introduced as a minimize to everybody.

That able-bodied people not of retirement age ought to stay within the job market earlier than making use of for meals stamps is just not extraordinary in and of itself, however is introduced by CBS as essentially the most draconian factor. How dare folks be on the welfare rolls and be made to search for work? 

The remainder of the report is fearmongering filler, with presumptions about overwhelmed meals banks and psychological gymnastics with regard to the impact of those adjustments on meals retailers. None of those analyses consider the impact of hundreds of thousands of further People getting into the workforce, or the consequences upon this system of hundreds of thousands of unlawful aliens coming off the welfare rolls. The entire of the report is anti-news at its worst.

Bari Weiss can’t get to CBS rapidly sufficient.

Click on “broaden” to view full transcript of the aforementioned phase as aired on CBS Night Information Plus on Wednesday, September third, 2025:

JOHN DICKERSON: A federal program courting again to the New Deal that gives meals help to greater than 40 million People has been minimize. The Congressional Price range Workplace estimates that 2.4 million fewer folks will now qualify for the Supplemental Diet Help Program, or SNAP. That is beneath President Trump’s tax and spending plan that handed in July. Right here to debate is CBS’s Senior Enterprise and Know-how Correspondent, Jo-Ling Kent. So, Jo-Ling, let’s begin with what are among the new guidelines and what’s modified with the SNAP program since this laws handed?

JO-LING KENT: John, we will begin to see these adjustments rolled out over the following couple of years. New work necessities went into impact on Labor Day. And the largest change is that non-disabled adults with out independents(sic) have to satisfy a piece requirement till the age of 64. That is ten years longer than the present 54-year age requirement. And we have additionally seen some exemptions additionally eliminated for some dad and mom. In order we zoom out that 2.4 million determine that you just cited, these folks will lose their SNAP advantages in line with the CBO. And that is an estimate. And that features lots of of hundreds of households with youngsters, and households throughout all 50 states may lose an estimated 72 to $231 a month. And if you concentrate on that, that is a significant hit in the case of your weekly grocery price range. A number of meals banks within the metro areas throughout the U.S. are also- they’re bracing for a rise in want. We will see a double whammy in the case of cuts in SNAP advantages, plus meals costs persevering with to stay excessive with inflation so cussed, John.

DICKERSON: And what occurs, then, to the shops that- that give service- service these prospects?

KENT: Yeah John, we anticipate to see each a constructive and destructive affect on the massive field retailers. Total, you would see spending go down due to the SNAP cuts. Final yr, People redeemed about $61 billion in SNAP advantages. And half of that quantity was estimated to have been spent at Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Goal and different main retailers. So with these cuts you would see that income that these firms usually herald, herald, take a success. However on the identical time, a few of these retailers like Walmart particularly, might profit as a result of prospects with SNAP advantages who’re actually making an attempt to stretch their {dollars} much more with these cuts and reductions, they’ll truly search for extra, deeper reductions, one thing that Walmart and different main retailers can afford to supply. You evaluate that to impartial grocers in your neighborhood, these smaller companies, they can not afford to chop costs as aggressively, John.

DICKERSON: Jo-Ling Kent, thanks a lot.