Groups fear stand-alone food stamp bill will short-change program

By Sean Lengell

Published July 12, 2013 4:00am ET

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Groups fear stand-alone food stamp bill will short-change program — The House rejected a five year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that would have cut $2 billion annually from food stamps and let states impose broad new work requirements on those who receive them. (AP/Rich Pedroncelli) | Rich Pedroncelli

Now that the House has cut food-stamp funding from its farm bill, the chamber’s Republican leaders who pushed the move vow that they will give the nutrition program appropriate attention in a separate bill later this year.

But liberal groups and anti-hunger activists worry the two-bill approach leaves a program that almost 50 million Americans depend on vulnerable to damaging cuts and restrictions.

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