Political Quotes

“President Donald Trump has a new MAHA strategy, but it is no longer 'Make America Healthy Again.' It is now the 'Make America Hungry Agenda.' The President is weaponizing food against America's most vulnerable families. In my State of Oregon, SNAP feeds over 750,000 people, including well over 200,000 children. Now, Oregon is roughly, from its northern border to its southern border, roughly 300 miles. So invite yourself to do a little calculation. Imagine those 700,000 people lined up along I-5, stretching 300 miles from the northern border with Washington to the southern border with California. And do you think you will see a person every mile or so? No. You would see a person every 2 feet over that 300-mile trip. It is about a 6-hour drive from the northern border to the southern border--6 hours driving past a continuous line of people. That, my colleagues, is the vision that Trump has for more than 700,000 hungry people, almost a third--every third person in line, approximately--a child. What kind of vision is that for America? When children go hungry, it affects their physical development. It certainly affects the wiring in their brain, their mental development, and it certainly is devastating to their education. My colleague just noted that children can't learn when they hear the grumbling in their stomachs. He is absolutely right. Children cannot learn when they are hungry. So it is a threefold attack on America's children.”