On the recordApril 16, 2018
I have never met a person who wakes up in the morning and says: I want to be poor today. That is just not the reality. Yet my colleagues across the aisle, and their friends in the White House, keep pushing this false narrative that people who rely on government assistance to make ends meet are moochers who take government handouts and buy drugs. Mr. Speaker, in my district, 17.9 percent of households rely on SNAP to feed their families. They aren't lazy. They aren't addicts. They are hardworking people, some of them with two and three jobs, just trying to make ends meet. The United States Government should be making it easier for Americans to maintain a decent standard of living. Let us end this administration's war on the working poor and help make better lives for all of our citizens. ____________________
