Snap and Medicaid Cuts

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Ms. CROCKETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for a 28-year-old single mother of five in my district. She is doing everything right. She is working hard, raising her babies, and trying to keep them fed and healthy.

She was receiving $1,000 a month in SNAP benefits. Then one day it was suddenly cut to $500. She picked up more hours because that is what moms do.

In this bill they talk about people being lazy. I just want to say that the only thing that is lazy about this bill is their lies. That is because when we think about their lies and their lying, it relates to those who are going to be subjected to the work requirements.

There are lies about cutting almost 14 million people off their healthcare. Frankly, they lie about this being fiscally responsible. You don't have to believe me, Mr. Speaker. Just Google members of the Freedom Caucus and their objections. They hate the fact that after all of this, we are going to have death, malnutrition, and the shuttering of hospitals both in rural and urban America. Yet still, they are going to drive us into further debt.

When we talk about cutting SNAP, she was only going to get $15 a day or $2.50 per person.

Mr. Speaker, we need to make sure that we don't choose cruelty over competency, callousness over compassion, and cons over constituents.

Mr. Speaker, tell Republicans where they can cram this crap.

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