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John Thune: “We have a $40 trillion debt, which is why this is maybe a…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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'This is effing ridiculous': Cory Booker vs John Thune clash over SNAP funding in heated hearing

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It's hard for me to sit here and participate in the kabuki theater and where our big idea to solve that problem is to go after the most struggling Americans. That is hypocrisy. We have a $40 trillion debt, which is why this is maybe a small start, but we gotta start somewhere. A lot of states are not providing this information to usda. They've asked states on, you know, to share SNAP eligibility data to help them reduce some of the waste, fraud and abuse and lower error rates. (00:49–00:55)

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