Have Trump’s policies ‘lifted’ nearly 5 million Americans off food stamps? - The Washington Post

President Trump lauded the number of people “lifted off food stamps” amid a slew of economic statistics in his annual State of the Union address. This is nothing new — he made some variation of this point 41 times in rallies and at speeches taking office. Meanwhile, as he campaigned for president, Trump pointed to the number of people receiving assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) as evidence of what he insisted was the poor state of the economy...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/20/have-trumps-policies-lifted-nearly-million-americans-off-food-stamps/