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Source: San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

The ugly face of a villain. Stephen Alexander Vaden, the USDA Deputy Secretary (Department of Agriculture), is the villain who signed the proposal recently listed in the ‘Federal Register’ to make massive cuts to the SNAP food benefits program that will starve 6.3 million people, mostly women and children in America. It appears that the convicted felon President Trump, and Stephen Alexander Vaden, hate women and children enough to make them go hungry, and starve them with their new proposal.

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