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Published August 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 13:36

But this is our job. All the other things you're talking about, I don't disagree with a lot of it, because I'm with you. I think the biggest threat to our country right now is a $40 trillion debt. But that's what's under this committee's jurisdiction, and we should do what we can do. We got to start somewhere. (13:36–13:41)

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“We have a $40 trillion debt.”
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“In 2021, the administration increased spending for [SNAP] by $300 billion.”
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“USDA, they've asked states on to share SNAP eligibility data to help them reduce some of the waste, fraud and abuse and lower error rates…”
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“We have a $40 trillion debt, which is why this is maybe a small start, but we gotta start somewhere.”
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“There are a lot of states who are represented in this room. It'll save a lot of money if the chairman's proposal here goes into law.”
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“If it doesn't, there are some states that are going to be on the hook for a pretty big payment.”
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“The manager's amendment that he put forward, there were 18 Democrat bills in there, 16 Republican in the manager's amendment.”
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“We've been trying to get the biofuels done for more than a decade, at least 15 years that I've been here.”
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“We're saying 6%. You can still have a fraud, waste and error rate of 6% under this.”
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“In the last decade, every single state in this room has been under the 6%.”
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