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Josh Brecheen: “One in eight people are on food stamps. One in four people…”

Featuring: Josh Brecheen, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Brecheen March Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 17:02

And so you gotta have people stand on courage and say look, we're spending 60 billion a year on the obesity related epidemic that we're compounding just on the food stamp program. One in eight people are on food stamps. One in four people are on Medicaid in this country. And so it makes sense, go back to historical norms that what was food stamps originally was things that were healthy, there were excess surplus from farms. (17:02–17:07)

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Asserts that one in eight Americans are on food stamps and one in four are on Medicaid.

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