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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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