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Alex Padilla: “Cutting $300 billion from SNAP would be devastating.”

Featuring: Alex Padilla, Democratic | U.S. Senate from California

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Senator Alex Padilla Criticizes Republican Budget Bill for SNAP Cuts and Impact on Immigrant Communities

Published | Video Starts at 00:57

The way they talk about it, nobody aspires to live on food stamps. What food stamps are is a lifeline for millions of Americans. And I want to make crystal clear to the American people that Cutting $300 billion from SNAP would be devastating. It's outright cruelty, literally taken from the poor to give to the rich. No one in our country should go hungry because billionaires need another tax break. That's the Republican agenda. (00:57–01:03)

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Asserts that the proposed budget cuts $300 billion from SNAP.

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