Ranking Member Angie Craig: "Billionaires Get Richer, Families Get Hungrier"

thank 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 that 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 but 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 and 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 and 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 this bill would mean that farmers growing our food would make $30 billion less than anticipated in farm income placing family farmers at risk look this Republican budget only stands to make America hungrier and poorer so the rich can get richer generally time's expired and I urge my colleagues to vote no give me