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'There's A Special Place In Hell For People Who Take Food Away From Veterans': McGovern Hammers GOP
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During debate on the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) didn't hold back in condemning the Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill.
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myself to balance the time. Mr. Speaker, I don't think any of my Republican colleagues have read
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this provision in the reconciliation bill. In fact, the Agriculture Committee never even did
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a hearing on it. And yet, billions and billions of dollars in new costs are going to be thrust
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upon states. And states are going to have to decide whether to cut other programs in order to
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make sure that no one loses their nutrition benefits, or they're going to have to cut
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people off of their nutrition benefits. The SNAP benefit on average is about $2 per person per
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meal. That's it. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee in the Capitol with that. And my Republican friends
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are obsessed with trying to throw people off of this benefit. I have no idea why.
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You know, most of the people on the benefit are children, are senior citizens. They include
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veterans. Many of them are working full-time and can't afford to put food on the table, and this
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benefit helps them provide for their families. And my Republican friends, you know, have basically gone
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and attack on this most basic, effective program that is about food. You can live without a lot of
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things, but you can't live without food. So Mr. Speaker, for those Republicans who think that it's okay
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to give Jeff Bezos a tax cut, and at the same time cut food benefits for struggling families,
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let me say clearly, we don't share the same values. We don't share the same values. Unloading billions
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of dollars in new costs on states, money they do not have, will force them to cut benefits and throw
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needy people off of SNAP. It is a rotten thing to do. And I believe there's a special place in hell
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for people who take food away from veterans, from seniors, from children, from former foster youth,
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and from hungry families. This is sick. This is disgusting. I yield back.
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