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Cory Booker: “You said how much the monthly SNAP payments are for America…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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'This is effing ridiculous': Cory Booker vs John Thune clash over SNAP funding in heated hearing

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

… in and what's holding us up from getting a farm bill done is a two year compromise that we've offered because sincerely, we all agree this problem should be fixed. You said how much the monthly SNAP payments are for America that affect 45 million people. And again, you are a man of infinite kindness and pragmatism. That amounts to $101 billion on SNAP that we're spending now. (05:52–05:58)

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