Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Agriculture, Rural Development, Energy and Water Development, Financial Services and General Government, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2022

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Mrs. CAMMACK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my amendment, striking language that would effectively allow unlimited use of additional contingency funding for SNAP.

As I stated in my Rules testimony yesterday, when it comes to SNAP, this administration chose the playbook of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to create a food stamp free-for-all.

Recently, the CBPP wrote a piece that said: ``For other appropriated entitlements, policymakers have a simple way to protect against inadequate annual funding: by providing uncapped appropriations for the last quarter of the fiscal year to fulfill the requirements of the underlying law governing the program in question.'' In other words, let's hit continue on one of the biggest welfare expansions in U.S. history.

The administration and the majority are taking the advice of a multi- million-dollar organization and its leadership that thrives on creating dependency and making a lot of money by doing so.

This slush fund of contingency money that I am talking about today has the potential to exceed $17 billion with unanticipated costs listed as the only parameter for spending. I can only guess what will, in fact, be labeled as an unanticipated cost.

I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of my amendment, start supporting solutions to end dependence, and help get people back to work.

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