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Steve Scalise: “42 million American families will lose their SNAP benefits…”

Featuring: Steve Scalise, Republican | House Majority Leader, U.S. House Louisiana, District 1

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 20:43

With all your stress, you now have to go be an Uber driver after hours just to put feedback, food on the table. And then you take this weekend. This weekend's a big inflection point in America. 42 million American families will lose their SNAP benefits this weekend. August, that's food stamps. That's food on the table for babies, for women, infant and children program runs out of money. This weekend. That's real people that will be suffering. (20:43–20:48)

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Asserts that 42 million families will lose their food assistance benefits imminently.

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