Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) speaks at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Sen. Cory Booker's (D-NJ) sit-in on the Capitol Hill steps.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:02Please give it up for these four incredible foot soldiers in the fight against hunger in America.
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00:12We know that this administration has already cut meals on wheels to our seniors.
00:17Vital food programs going to our seniors.
00:20We know they've already attacked school lunch programs.
00:23But we are seeing in this next work period, they're going to begin to go after SNAP.
00:29One of the great champions of the fight for SNAP.
00:33Who knows, as was said so eloquently, that we shouldn't be cutting benefits.
00:38We should be investing more in nutrition programs for our children.
00:42The highest ranking Senate Democrat on the Agricultural Committee that oversees SNAP.
00:49One of my friends and truly one of our great champions in America, Amy Klobuchar.
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03:12And the tariffs, these across-the-board tariffs that are affecting their businesses, they
03:17don't have any margin to rely on.
03:20So that's why this is a social justice issue.
03:24This is an economic issue.
03:26And when you look at what's happening right now in farm country, they're waking up.
03:30I was at one of our smaller town halls, and a woman was there, maybe would have been one
03:35of you, holding a sign that said, this is not normal.
03:39And the farmer sitting next to her, who's never been to one of these things, he looks
03:42at her and he goes, I'm normal.
03:45And she goes, no, no, no.
03:46That's not what I mean.
03:47She's like, this is not normal, what's happening right now.
03:50But there's a lot of normal people, whoever you are, that are affected.
03:53He goes, okay, I get it, I get it, I get it.
03:57Those quiet voices that don't always talk, they're rising up right now.
04:02They're rising up right now, and they're showing up.
04:05So the people that are watching, the people that are watching on the live stream, I want
04:12you to make sure you talk to someone that doesn't always go to these things.
04:15And talk to them about hunger, and what we're seeing in our country.
04:19Tell them what's the truth.
04:21Costs are up, chaos is up, corruption is up under this administration.
04:26And that's why these sit-ins, and people coming out and getting out of their shells, and having
04:31the hope that we can have a better world, is so important right now.
04:36And I want, when people say, what are you doing to fight, you've got to ask yourself,
04:40what am I doing to fight?
04:41And a lot of you are standing out here right now, and will join us.
04:44But I can tell you right now, we are fighting this in the courts, right?
04:48We're fighting it in the courts, where 90 judges, Republican-appointed judges, Democrat-appointed
04:55judges, are standing up and saying, no, this is unconstitutional.
04:59We are fighting it in Congress, where all it takes, as Hakeem and Corey know, to have
05:04four Republicans stand up in the House, four Republicans stand up in the Senate and say,
05:09no, we're not going to do these tariffs, we're not going to cut Medicaid, we're not
05:14going to take lunches away from kids.
05:16Remember that number, four Republicans is all it takes.
05:20And then finally, we are fighting it with our constituents by our side.
05:24And that is all of you.
05:26So I want to thank you for turning out today.
05:28I hope you talk as much as I did, so I lost my voice.
05:31But I hope you do it, so you share it with everyone else.
05:34Thank you, Corey.
05:35Thank you, Hakeem.
05:36Keep up the great work.
05:37Thanks, everyone.
05:38Thank you, Senator Amy Klobuchar.