For context, state-administered food programs paid for by SNAP already treat recipients like criminals with extensive salary, income, assets, and life situation

For context, state-administered food programs paid for by SNAP already treat recipients like criminals with extensive salary, income, assets, and life situation reporting and verification every 6 months to 12 months max. It comes across as just yet another way look down on poor people, waste their time, and spend more money on duplicated means testing already costing significantly more than whatever hunting down every marginal unqualified case hoped to save like "finding" the "welfare queen" or "voting fraud" bogeyman that doesn't exist to demonize one group or another. UBI would probably be a whole lot cheaper than micromanaging what people can and can't buy while not treating the most desperate people with unkind, perpetual suspicion. The truth is this is yet another rug pull surprise to screw over poor people. Not just health insurance subsidy revocations or Medicaid cuts, because some people just aren't satisfied with trillions or all the power.