LIES: Pelosi claims ‘food stamps,’ ‘farm subsidies’ not being paid because of Trump, but they ARE

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has every right to criticize POTUS Donald Trump and his administration, and in fact, being the leader of the opposition party in the House, we expect her to.

But the California Democrat has an obligation to the country to at least be honest in her critique of the president.

On Thursday, Pelosi was babbling on to reporters about how — because of the president — Americans aren’t getting their promised benefits including as food stamps, farm subsidies, and federal housing, all due to what she called President Donald Trumpâ€™s â€œpetulanceâ€ and â€œobstinance.â€

Farmers â€œare expecting, and not receiving, what the President promised when he did his, shall we say, misinformed trade policies,â€ she said. â€œThey also have subsidies and other needs as they plan for the growing season.

â€œAnd food safety inspections, food stamps, all the rest, being held up by the Presidentâ€™s petulance,â€ she added.

â€œThereâ€™s so much that HUD has to do with housing in our country that is forestalled by the Presidentâ€™s obstinance,â€ she said.

First of all, POTUS Trump’s “trade policies” — we assume she means his regimen of tariffs imposed on China — are working. Chinese manufacturing fell last fall to its lowest level in two years, “hurt by slowing domestic and external demand, in a sign of deepening cracks in the economy from an intensifying trade war with the United States,”Â ReutersÂ reported.

Last month, writing inÂ The Hill,Â Jeff Ferry, a research director at the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) who supports the tariffs, said unequivocally that, “contrary to popular belief,” they are working:

Why have the tariffs been working so well? The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA)Â examinedÂ both the positive and negative impacts of tariffs on the U.S. economy. We found that the tariffs have added $9 billion to U.S. GDP this year.

Hiring in the tariffed industries is carrying over to local supply chains and communities, boosting regional economic growth. Meanwhile the much-feared negative effects due to price increases have not happened.Â Â

In short, the tariffs are working. Some argue that tariffs are a â€œnationalistâ€ policy. But the tariffs are not eliminating imports. Clearly, the U.S. will continue to import a wide swath of goods, but a stronger domestic manufacturing sector will mean a higher growth path for the nation as a whole.Â

Second, as to Pelosi’s claims that food stamps and other benefits meted out by the Department of Agriculture are not being paid is an outright lie.

While House Democrats refuse to pass legislation that funds the presidentâ€™s requested border wall even as a humanitarian crisis plays out along the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told reporters this week that POTUS has been working behind the scenes to ensure that low-income Americans will receive their nutritional benefits from his department,Â Breitbart News reports.



