We are taking food from the poorest of the poor, we are blaming them for the debt, and we are asking nothing of the richest of the rich.
Taking away SNAP doesn't help anyone find work. It just makes them go hungry.
I did need to interject that we felt like that was really where all the fat was, with trying to feed hungry people in this country to the tu...
We are too big of a country, we are too great a country, to let anybody go hungry who needs help.
My ask today for the Committee on Agriculture is simple, continue providing programs and support that are open and inclusive for all food ba...
the benefit is inadequate, and maybe we ought to be talking about expanding GusNIP as a way to deal with that.
You cut SNAP, you make more people in this country hungry, then we are against this farm bill.
Despite the importance of nutrition to student success, and what I would consider increased opportunity, recent surveys estimate that as man...
SNAP is one of the largest anti-hunger, anti-poverty initiatives in this nation.
Let me just share with you why I oppose moving from the 49 years of age that we have the work requirements.
Food insecurity is real. It is besieging our urban and rural poor, grandparents on Social Security caring for grandchildren, struggling sing...
I think we really are plagued by this failure to recognize that we have made progress on these issues, and that we are a good and generous c...
I want to say a big thank you to President Biden's leadership, because the recent debt limit agreement included a new exemption from the tim...
We need to work on that.
The benefit is inadequate, and maybe we ought to be talking about expanding GusNIP as a way to deal with that.
If there is no grocery store around you, and you are buying your meals from a bodega, and you are homeless, and don't have access to hot foo...
We Democrats stand united against any efforts to take food away from veterans, from children, or any families that are vulnerable in America...
Never waste a crisis is a leadership motto I firmly believe and follow.
