During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about proposed cuts to social services in Republicans' budget.
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00:01Now on reconciliation, and particularly on SNAP, the program that feeds hungry children.
00:08Today, the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture
00:12will begin marking up the main portions of Republicans' so-called big, beautiful bill.
00:18Reports suggest that Republicans may even name their legislation one beautiful bill.
00:24That's ridiculous.
00:25I suggest Republicans pick a different name, a more honest name.
00:30They should call their bill the Big Grift, because that's what their bill is.
00:36Greedy Republicans in favor of tycoons.
00:40The Big Grift.
00:42Billionaires win, American families lose.
00:46There is nothing, nothing beautiful about the biggest cuts in Medicaid to American history.
00:51There is nothing, quote, beautiful about cutting SNAP, the largest anti-program in America,
00:57by over $300 billion.
01:00There is nothing beautiful about forcing kids to go hungry just to feed corporate greed.
01:07But that's what Republicans want to do.
01:09They want to act SNAP benefits by $310 billion to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-rich.
01:15Cutting food from the mouth of hungry children.
01:21For tax breaks for the ultra-rich, that is what they call beautiful.
01:26I call it warped.
01:29They want to shift the burden to the states, knowing full well many states won't be able to make up the gap in funding.
01:35That means in states across America and in Puerto Rico, kids, seniors, veterans, and families will go hungry.
01:43USDA cuts have already decimated food banks.
01:47I was just in Albany yesterday, where the local food bank had 27 tractor trailers,
01:53one million pounds of food, one million pounds of good, nutritious food for children and others,
01:59veterans, elderly who need the food, all canceled because of Donald Trump's cuts.
02:05Much of that food was produced by local family farms, who lost a valuable market.
02:11And this is happening across the country, and now Republicans want to add to the devastation by cutting SNAP.
02:16That's even a further cut than they've already done, a deeper cut.
02:20Republicans call their SNAP cuts savings and reducing waste.
02:25But those are euphemisms.
02:26What it really means is increasing hunger, increasing poverty, increasing the wealth of the ultra-rich.
02:35It is morally indefensible, indefensible.
02:40I yield the floor.