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Dave McCormick: “Snap's grown by $80 billion in the last five years.”

Featuring: Dave McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 27:03

But what's happened, and you got to step back and look at it, is Medicaid spending has grown by $250 billion a year in five years. It's the fastest growing line in the budget, the fastest growing entitlement. Snap's grown by $80 billion in the last five years. Part of the reason those programs have grown is that there's people taking advantage of those programs that Aren't the programs weren't designed for. (27:03–27:06)

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Asserts that SNAP spending has increased by $80 billion over the past five years.

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