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John Barrasso: “We fund food assistance to 42 million Americans. Now think…”

Featuring: John Barrasso, Republican | U.S. Senate Wyoming

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Barrasso Slams Schumer Plan to Prop Up Obamacare

Published | Video Starts at 09:35

… last five or six weeks by passing a clean, continuing, bipartisan resolution that means funding the government at current levels. So we pay our military families, we pay federal workers, We fund food assistance to 42 million Americans. Now think about that. That's 42 million Americans. That's more than twice the number of people in this country that are on Obamacare. Yet Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are willing to deny food to hungry children who outnumber the people on Obamacare right now by 2 to 1. That's what we're dealing with here. (09:35–09:52)

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Asserts that 42 million Americans receive food assistance, which is more than twice the number on Obamacare.

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