During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about proposed cuts to SNAP.
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00:01Now on reconciliation and SNAP.
00:04So the Republicans' so-called Big Beautiful Bill
00:07is one of the most heinous, callous, and cruel proposals we've ever seen.
00:12Republicans don't want to axe health care for 14 million Americans,
00:16which is going to mean higher costs for even many more millions of Americans.
00:22They also want massive cuts to SNAP,
00:25the largest, most effective anti-hunger program in America.
00:29Republicans want to cut SNAP benefits by as much as $310 billion,
00:35the largest cuts to anti-hunger funding in history.
00:40This would mean the average person on SNAP would be left with just $5 a day for food.
00:48That is morally bankrupt.
00:50$5 a day for food.
00:53One dozen eggs alone cost more than that.
00:56Republicans are literally stealing food away from hungry kids,
01:02from seniors, from veterans,
01:04to finance tax breaks for the ultra-rich.
01:08Give me a break.
01:10This is cruel.
01:11This is mean, heartless, and counterproductive.
01:15You have a hungry child, can't learn.
01:18Often grows up to have a life that is not as productive as others who are fed can have.
01:27The Republican cuts to SNAP would cut 6 million Americans off from food.
01:33It would reduce food benefits for 5 million more Americans.
01:374 million children, 4 million children will go to bed hungry because of this cruelty
01:44to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
01:47Isn't it incredible?
01:49I'd even like to ask these billionaires who are so hell-bent on reducing their own taxes
01:54if they're happy taking money away from hungry children and not feeding them.
01:5911 million people will go hungry under the Republicans' bill,
02:06the biggest cut to food assistance in American history.
02:12That's the Republican idea of beautiful?
02:16Taking food away from the mouths of hungry kids,
02:20all for tax breaks for billionaires?
02:22It's not beautiful.
02:23It's ugly.
02:25Very ugly.
02:26Republicans will continue to defend their SNAP benefit cuts
02:32as, quote, reducing fraud, waste, abuse.
02:43So ask them this.
02:45Ask our Republican friends this.
02:47Which category does a hungry 7-year-old fall under?
02:52Are they waste?
02:53Are they fraud?
02:56Are they abuse?
02:58What Republicans are really doing is increasing hunger,
03:02increasing poverty, increasing costs for states and families,
03:06lowering the productive lives that our future adult citizens can have,
03:11all to increase the wealth of the ultra-rich.
03:16It is shameful.
03:17It is sad.
03:18It is caused by people