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Jasmine Crockett: “Now we're just going to go ahead and take away SNAP benefits…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

Jasmine Crockett Criticizes Republican Tax and Spending Cuts on Ion Politics

Published May 31, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:38

So at the same time that you want to Potentially give each ICE officer a $42,000 bonus on top of their salary, you have people saying, you know what? I can't afford groceries even with snap. Now we're just going to go ahead and take away SNAP benefits to the tune of $330 billion. What's going to happen to those farmers in rural America, the ones that were trying to plant and plan for people to go out and buy this food? (04:38–04:43)

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Asserts that the bill will cut SNAP benefits by $330 billion.

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“They are now trying to raise the spending in defense to $1 trillion every single budget.”
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“They said 40% of his [Trump's] wealth right now has actually accumulated since he's been in office.”
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“We are looking at approximately 14 million people that may lose their health care.”
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“You had two Republicans that decided to vote with the Democrats, and then you had another Republican that, in my opinion, most likely they…”
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“At least the House version of the bill has these cuts and now they're having to talk about it.”
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“In the House budget resolution that was passed, the only place you could get the cuts is if you went to Medicaid.”
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“They are trying to use [Medicaid cuts] to justify the tax cuts that they have built in for the ultra wealthy.”
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“He [Trump] should have been convicted [in his impeachments] and he didn't.”
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“They still have bills that are over the 50,000.”
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“True fiscal conservative Republicans are like, I can't vote for this because you still want to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion.”
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“One of the agreements was we will raise the debt ceiling so long as you raise defense spending.”
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“The farm bill is still behind. We are on year three of being behind right now on the farm bill.”
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“Chances are Joe Biden is not going to reenter office.”
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“I've never talked to any constituent that was worried about the auto pen.”
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“Joe Biden is not the president, and right now, whatever harms that are going to be suffered by the American people have nothing to do with…”
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