Amy Klobuchar: “in addition to the many outrages of this bill--$4 trillion in debt, millions of people off of their healthcare--in the…”

“in addition to the many outrages of this bill--$4 trillion in debt, millions of people off of their healthcare--in the middle of the night, it got worse. It is something that must see the light of day, and that is, we all know it shifts $64 billion to the States that they can't pay for for food assistance on the backs of veterans, on the backs of kids, on the backs of people with disabilities. But the whole reason we were told that it was shifted over to the States was so that we would incentivize States to reduce errors. In the middle of the night, the biggest hypocrisy of the entire bill, the Republicans have rewarded States that have the highest error rates in the country--10 States with the highest error rates-- just to help Alaska, which has the highest error rate. So the message to the country and the Nation's Governors and the Republican Senators is this: Raise your error rates. Get them up to 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent, 40 percent. Make a whole bunch of mistakes when it comes to SNAP because then you will get more money. You won't have your cuts for a year, you won't even have them for the next year. For the rest of us, the States--all the States in the Midwest--that are doing their best, they have got to pay in. So, Senators, decide: Are you going to go with your States, or are you going to reward waste, fraud, and abuse, because with this provision that you put in there, you have done the opposite.”