On the recordMay 23, 2017
I would advise my friend from Massachusetts I do not have any speakers remaining, and I reserve the balance of my time to close. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Throughout his campaign, President Trump made promises that he would not cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Now we have come to find out that he has broken every one of those promises. The Trump budget includes more than $800 billion in Medicaid cuts in the GOP healthcare bill and then adds additional cuts on top of that, with total Medicaid cuts of over $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Furthermore, the Trump budget guts Social Security disability insurance which, as of 2015, covered 10 million recipients. The Trump budget also slashes funding for SNAP, our Nation's first line of defense against hunger, by $193 billion. That is a 25 percent cut. SNAP is the program that provides people food. That's it--food. We have 42 million people in this country who are food insecure--42 million. We should all be ashamed of that. And the answer is to cut SNAP by 25 percent? Oh, and by the way, the average SNAP benefit is $1.40 per person per meal. And let's not forget that the Republicans' healthcare disaster takes $75 billion out of the Medicare trust fund, shortening the life of the trust fund.
