Trump honors Paul Ryan’s retirement by kicking 800,000 people off of food stamps

It was a classic bait and switch. On Thursday, in the hours before the Oval Office was set to host President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of a farm bill — one which had been lauded by anti-hunger advocates for sparing the food stamps program of deep funding cuts — the Trump administration quietly announced its plan to dump hundreds of thousands of people off of the food assistance program.

It was a quick end to a much ballyhooed example of bipartisan compromis...