Each and every one of those people are Americans, and they should have the same access to vital programs.
I believe we can solve hunger. I believe that we can take what works, and we have seen a lot of things that are working across the country.
The idea that we would be threatening to blow up our credit rating over the school lunch program or over SNAP does not make any sense to me.
Hunger is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It is all of our issue that we have to take on.
I appreciate your leadership, and Senator Braun's, with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
This work requirement has been in place since 1996, and was passed with bipartisan support, including that of Senator Joe Biden.
I am concerned about proposals to limit this.
We are facing, in this country, also, not just a hunger crisis but a nutrition crisis.
To see people who blew up this deficit so that the wealthiest people in America could have tax cuts... that makes no sense to me.
I also plan to introduce legislation, the HAND UP Act, that will ensure SNAP is implemented in a way that measurably improves the employment...
It is outrageous that people who have drug convictions cannot get SNAP.