Horsford Remarks on Draconian SNAP Cuts

Statement

"I come to the floor today opposed to looming cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. And I urge the House Agriculture Committee and this Congress to refrain from slashing funding for this vital program. SNAP is our nation's most important anti-hunger program. It provides food assistance to approximately 46 million Americans and it kept 4.7 million people out of poverty in 2011, including 2.1 million children. And SNAP has cut the number of children living in extreme poverty in half.

"We should not be cutting the safety net for our most vulnerable while maintaining costly government subsidies for the well-off junk food, oil, and gas industries. A Nevada child in my district who receives $1.48 per meal is not the problem. The problem is corporate welfare and the special interest giveaways that litter our tax code. I urge my colleagues to not cut SNAP and to invest in our children and their nutrition safety."

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