Hakeem Jeffries: “Republicans this year, $186 billion from the supplemental…”

“This group of people, these extremists on the other side of the aisle, we will not let them lecture the American people about nutritional assistance when in their one big ugly bill they cut $186 billion. These are Republicans this year, $186 billion from the supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. That's the largest SNAP cut in American history. And people are to believe right now that Republicans actually care about hunger when they rip food away from the mouths of hungry children, seniors, families, women and veterans to provide massive tax breaks to their billionaire donors?” (17:59–18:08)

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