SNAP is great. It needs to become a nutrition program.
Making it easier to file was a key component, for example, of the bipartisan tax reform proposal that I wrote with Senator Dan Coats.
We reduced hunger in the United States by 30 percent, and we did not add a single bureaucrat to the Federal Government to do it.
I want a Department of Labor that is fighting every day for workers, not as some have characterized it.
Protecting SNAP and preventing fraud is not a Republican or a Democratic issue, though. I think everyone agrees on that.
It is outrageous that people who have drug convictions cannot get SNAP.
Each and every one of those people are Americans, and they should have the same access to vital programs.
To see people who blew up this deficit so that the wealthiest people in America could have tax cuts... that makes no sense to me.
We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.
I think whenever we entertain any of this we have got to make sure that we are getting value out of whatever we are proposing.
You cannot get at the tax gap without focusing on these wealthy tax cheats and highly complicated businesses like large partnerships.
From my point of view, you know, we are living in the richest country in the world, and our level of childhood poverty is criminal.
Here is what we have. We had a special unemployment program set up for the pandemic, the worst crisis in 100 years. And a lot of things went...
