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Mike Garcia: “A third of our troops qualify for food stamps right now.”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia Town Hall 06AUG24

Published | Video Starts at 56:49

You gotta let them come home once in a while so that they're not spending half of their money on alimony and child support like 40% of them do right now. A third of our troops qualify for food stamps right now. And so there's very self evident problems and root cause reasons for what we're experiencing right now. Again, these are all direct results of policies coming out of the White House and policies coming out of the Pentagon. (56:49–56:53)

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Asserts that one-third of U.S. military troops qualify for food stamps.

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