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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,919 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 09:20 PM May 2017

Mulvaney: We must lower the debt for unborn children by taking food from existingchildren

During a hearing about the $3.6 trillion in cuts to domestic programs included in President Trump’s proposed budget, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney made a case that the fiscal interests of the unborn should take precedence over the lives of present-day Americans — or at least those who rely on food stamps to eat or public schools to educate their children.

During a hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) grilled Mulvaney about the budget’s 25 percent cut to food assistance for the poorest Americans.

“Mr. Mulvaney, at least 20 percent of people eligible for SNAP don’t even receive SNAP because of stigma and other reasons,” she said. “So there are more people who need SNAP benefits… And you have a 13 percent cut in the Department of Education. The most vulnerable kids who need — ”

Mulvaney cut her off and made an impassioned case that people like Lee aren’t sufficiently concerned about his “unborn grandchildren.”

https://thinkprogress.org/mick-mulvaney-trump-budget-unborn-grandchildren-food-stamps-cuts-39c0513ba97

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Mulvaney: We must lower the debt for unborn children by taking food from existingchildren (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
Mick the prick gademocrat7 May 2017 #1
Gee, Mickey, I'd rather do it by putting billionaires on a diet. Warpy May 2017 #2
"his" unborn grandchildren. All about his family. He forgets he works for ALL the American families riversedge May 2017 #3
except it doesn't even actually lower the debt.....it does help the rich existing children.... virtualobserver May 2017 #4

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
2. Gee, Mickey, I'd rather do it by putting billionaires on a diet.
Wed May 24, 2017, 10:21 PM
May 2017

After all, that's who stole all the money from working families.

Stupid ass.

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
4. except it doesn't even actually lower the debt.....it does help the rich existing children....
Wed May 24, 2017, 10:27 PM
May 2017

and of course their parents.

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