Manuel Lujan: “What is not respectful is when the Trump administration gives them a few days' notice and pulls the rug from under them…”

“What is not respectful is when the Trump administration gives them a few days' notice and pulls the rug from under them and cancels the program that is going to allow the food bank--their customer--to buy their food. What do those farmers have to do now across America? Now, it gets worse and worse. I won't go into all of it, Senator Booker, but here is one of the dirty little secrets: All of these programs that are being taken away from the American people, it is to find an extra dollar for this tax policy under Donald Trump that my constituents started calling back in 2017 the ``Trump tax scam.'' I asked: Well, why are you calling it that? They said: Well, everyone promised me--I am making less than the median income, making less than $80,000, which is a lot of money in New Mexico, across America. The median income there is a little lower. I was told that we were going to get the brunt of this tax cut, recognizing that we are hard-working and how hard it is to make ends meet, but that is not what happened. Most of this went to families and folks making over $2.8 million. I don't have anything against those families. I wish them well. I want them to make more--$10 million--next year. But they don't need a tax cut. That should be going to those hard-working families that were told that they were being prioritized. But they are the ones that told us--told me, anyway--that this was a Trump tax scam. That is the secret. That is where all this money is going.…”