claim: food stamp spending "doubled under president bush, doubled again under president obama."
author: tom cole
evidence_1: jan 12, 2016 ... but as we noted when republicans called obama the “food stamp president,”  14.7 million people were added to the food-stamp rolls during george w. bush's  time in office. by comparison, the net gain under obama now stands at just under  13.4 million — and it's slowly declining as the economy ...
evidence_2: may 24, 2017 ... as for food stamps, the cuts would be real, but spending on the program has  expanded exponentially in recent years. it essentially doubled under president  george w. bush, and doubled again under president obama. trump's budget  would basically return the program to roughly the level of funding it ...
evidence_3: oct 9, 2016 ... however, the poverty rate is still 0.3 percentage points higher, and the number of  americans on food stamps is up nearly 36 percent. .... the number of agents  stationed at the u.s.-mexico border nearly doubled under president bush,  growing from 9,147 agents at the southwest border in fiscal year 2001 to ...
evidence_4: mar 8, 2016 ... as this article from the washington examiner explains, the food stamp program  was heartily expanded under bush in the 2002 farm bill, the 2008 farm bill, and  in 2009 "stimulus" packages. obama naturally did nothing to reverse these  expansions: the 2002 farm bill expanded eligibility to noncitizens, ...
evidence_5: aug 17, 2015 ... jeb bush is (mostly) right when he says the number of people in poverty  increased by 6 million under obama. but that statistic is more complicated than  you might think.