After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble
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Oregon faces $250 million annual food stamp costs unless bureaucrat Nate Singer reduces payment error rates from fourteen percent to under six percent.
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Nate Singer reads Trump's legislation while flipping burgers at a July Fourth barbecue, calculating Oregon's potential quarter-billion dollar food stamp liability using a highlighter and spatula.
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