Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) received backlash after she took to Twitter Thursday to talk about how a younger version of herself could have “starved” under the Trump administration’s new food stamps rule.
The new rule for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, would limit access to food assistance benefits–a move federal officials estimated could potentially cut as many as 688,000 Americans from the program.
