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14 States Sue To Block Trump
ParnasClaimsEx-TrumpAttorney Asked Him To Sacrifice Himself For President
Plan To Cut Food Stamps For
Fourteen states, Washing- ton, D. C. and New York City sued to block a Trump ad- ministration rule on Thursday that would push 700,000 peo- ple off food stamps in the lat- est standoff between Trump and blue states.
• The states allege that the new food stamp guidelines will harm their residents’ health, raise homelessness and healthcare costs for states and contradict what the archi- tects of the Supplemental Nu- trition Assistance Program intended.
• The suit, which was filed agains the Department of Agriculture and Secretary Sonny Perdue, claims that the government failed to give the public enough time to comment on a final version of the plan, violating federal rulemaking process.
• A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general joined the suit, including New York, California, Connecticut, Mary- land, Massachusetts, Michi- gan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
A supermarket displays stickers indicating they accept food stamps in West New York, N.J.
Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, D. C. and Vir- ginia.
• The USDA did not imme- diately respond to request for comment from Forbes.
Key background: The Trump administration plan would make it harder for states to get exemptions from a work requirement rule lim- iting adults to three months of food stamps within a three- year period unless they work or are in a work training pro- gram for at least 20 hours per week.
LEV PARNAS
him: “Be a good boy", though Parnas admitted that he doesn't remember what Dowd told him verbatim.
"I called Dowd to come
700,000 People
Lev Parnas claimed in a new interview Thursday that he was visited in jail by a for- mer attorney for President Trump who told him to coop- erate and sacrifice himself for the president.
John Dowd, who once served as an attorney for Trump, briefly served as Par- nas's attorney after he was in- dicted in October of last year for campaign finance viola- tions.
In part two of his interview with MSNBC's Rachel Mad- dow on Thusrday, Parnas re- counted firing Dowd. He said during a meeting where he ex- pected to discuss making bail, Dowd instead allegedly told
there. And I started seeing in the process of the bail stuff, the way things were going on ... I didn't feel they were trying to get me out," Parnas said. "John Dowd instead of com- forting me and trying to calm me down and telling me I'm going to be OK, he started talk- ing to me like a drill sergeant."
After the interaction, Par- nas said he fired Dowd and warned him to get out, or something "bad" would hap- pen.
Pressed by Maddow if they were asking him "to sacrifice [himself] to protect Trump," Parnas replied, "yes."
He added: "They tried to keep me quiet."
U. S. Troops Were Injured In Iran Missile
Attack Despite Pentagon Initially Saying
Several U. S. service mem- bers were injured during last week's Iranian missile attack on Al-Asad airbase in Iraq despite the Pentagon initially saying that no casualties had taken place.
"While no U. S. service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Al Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion symp- toms from the blast and are still being assessed," the U. S.-led military coalition fight- ing ISIS in Iraq and Syria said in a statement Thursday.
"Out of an abundance of caution, service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base, Iraq to Land- stuhl Regional Medical Cen- ter in Germany for follow-on screening. When deemed fit for duty, the service mem- bers are expected to return to
U. S. TROOPS
There Were No Casualties
Iraq following screening," the statement added.
A U. S. military official told CNN that 11 service members had been injured in the attack, which was launched in retaliation for the U. S. airstrikes that had killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani the previous
week. Defense One was first to report on the injured serv- ice members.
Following the attack the Pentagon said that no casual- ties had resulted from the 16 missiles fired by Iran. The U. S. military defines a casualty as either an injury or fatality involving personnel.
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