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. People will not go hungry. (04:56–05:04)
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Asserts that there is a mechanism for the President to use tariff funds to supplement the contingency fund.
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