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Nita Lowey: Now, it may be easy and politically expedient to point to one millionaire in Minnesota who purposefully defrauded the…

On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
Now, it may be easy and politically expedient to point to one millionaire in Minnesota who purposefully defrauded the American government and taxpayers as a publicity stunt, but that one individual is not representative of all SNAP recipients, and we all know the truth is much more complicated than that.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Emphasizing that one fraudulent case does not reflect the majority of SNAP recipients.

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