The nearly 42 million low-income Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will have to reapply for benefits under a planned overhaul of the program in an effort to cut down on “fraud,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told news outlets in the wake of the government reopening last week. Drug test them as well
Federal taxes are due on April 15, but a growing number of Americans are refusing to pay as an act of resistance against President Donald Trump’s administration. Attorney Rachel Cohen is one of them. Cohen is an organizer who has been pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed for protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s violent deportations. This year, she decided she needed to withhold payment of her federal tax dollars as another form of protest.
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