It's weaponizing food, using food as a weapon against America's most vulnerable families. In my state of Oregon, you're talking about 210,000 children. You're talking about 130,000 seniors. All told, over 700,000 people going without food. Congress said this should never happen. So we created a contingency fund. That fund has $5 billion in it. We created an interchange power so the President can actually use tariff funds to supplement that 5 billion. And here's the President of the United States last month acknowledging that that's the intent of Congress, that this fund exists. (04:47–04:57)
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Asserts that Congress created a $5 billion contingency fund to prevent hunger.
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