During debate on the House floor, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) tore into the Senate Republican budget proposal and House Republicans' for trying to advance it.
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00:00Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm actually stunned as we stand here today because as my colleagues talk about their plan, what they're doing in reality is giving billionaires the national credit card and telling them to go hog wild, racking up $14 trillion in national debt over the next 10 years so that large corporations can pay less in taxes.
00:30That doesn't lower costs for middle-class families in this country. If this was a bill that we were talking about that would lower taxes for the middle class, I'd be all for it.
00:40But to make matters worse, part of how they want to pay for this bill is to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by $230 billion. This cut would force the average SNAP household of four to spend over $2,000 more on food.
00:59And who are the majority of SNAP recipients? They are seniors living on fixed incomes, children, and disabled people. SNAP helps American families buy American-grown food.
01:12And this cut takes a chunk out of the farm economy as well, when they can least afford it because of the whiplash of this administration and Donald Trump's tariffs.
01:23This bill would mean that farmers growing our food would make $30 billion less than anticipated in farm income, placing family farmers at risk.
01:35Look, this Republican budget only stands to make America hungrier and poorer so the rich can get richer.
01:42It's shameful, and I urge my colleagues to vote no.
01:46Gentleman from Pennsylvania Reserve. Gentleman from Texas is recognized.
