What is your assessment of this? Are you taking this as seriously as I am, and what do you propose we should do for any private equity firm that would have connections with their military or surveillance operation?

Should we consider prohibitions for U.S. private equity investment in private sector firms which have ties to the Chinese military and the Chinese state surveillance apparatus?

But Secretary, I want to know you feel. Do you feel like I feel, that this is a serious attack on the United States?

It was a mistake because it showed weakness to China, and it showed uncertainty to our own friends.

This is antithetical to current law where an asset can be both a commodity and a security.

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.

I think we need to encourage opportunity, and I think we need to do that with all of our government programs.

So, I believe strongly that we need to make it possible for the millions of students that want to follow in a similar path to mine who--we need to enable them to make those ends meet while pursuing that education.

What has been missed here is that--this issue of work, as if Democrats don't have work requirements. We do, up to 49 years of age.

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.

Thank you for your service to our country. And as we continue to do our work here, let us continue to fight for those who fought for us.

What can we do to improve this situation with our children, our seniors, and our veterans?

We were proud to have this be a bipartisan vote to expand SNAP benefits to veterans and to the unhoused.

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 families.

Are SNAP applicants and recipients required to provide a Social Security Number to receive and retain SNAP benefits?

Some of my colleagues are also aiming to cut the program, and making a conscious decision that would directly hurt the poor and working families.

Despite the importance of nutrition to student success, and what I would consider increased opportunity, recent surveys estimate that as many as 30 to 40 percent of college students are impacted by food insecurity.

Food insecurity is a critical issue in eastern North Carolina, rural America, and across the country.

Dr. Rachidi, you note in your testimony SNAP must accomplish its core goal of supporting Americans in their path out of poverty.

I am concerned that we are not addressing that in a proper way, because many of these job opportunities are disappearing.

What President Biden insisted we put into the debt ceiling with regard to the three groups are there, homeless, veterans and, quite frankly, those children, they are aging out of foster care.

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.

Are you going to be able to eat a decent meal for $2.41 a meal? That is absolutely ridiculous.

As a nation, we owe it to these individuals to identify policies aimed at helping low-income families achieve the type of opportunity that every American deserves.

Taking away SNAP doesn't help anyone find work. It just makes them go hungry.