"We wouldn't accept changes to this critical program, and we were proud to have this be a bipartisan vote to expand SNAP benefits to veterans and to the unhoused."
"That is why I was proud to co-lead Training and Nutrition Stability Act, H.R. 3087, with Committee Members Alma Adams and Mark Molinaro, along with Adriano Espaillat."
"I will not support legislation that takes food away from low-income households."
"I will not support any policies that result in food being taken away from Kathy, James, Don, and the many other older adults in my district who depend on SNAP to put food on their tables for their fam..."
"Working hard is not enough if you don't make enough: $7.25, you can't survive, and all of my colleagues here know it."
"Cuts to SNAP harm our nation's most vulnerable, including children, and families, and older Americans, and disabled people."
"Taking away SNAP doesn't help anyone find work. It just makes them go hungry."
"Are you going to be able to eat a decent meal for $2.41 a meal? That is absolutely ridiculous."
"No more PPP, punishing poor people."
"It is kind of like Robin Hood in reverse. 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."
"I am trying to get an interest here in Congress to explore this."