GOP Rep says Americans would celebrate cutting food stamps [View all]
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) (Freedom Caucus Msmber)on Friday said Americans would celebrate cuts to the federal budget by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE – including a crackdown on food stamps and Medicaid.
The comments came Friday during Roy’s appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” where he called on “the DOGE guys” – billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – to identify non-defense discretionary spending that can be slashed.
If we were to go through and just put in restraints on the use of food stamps to feed our people sugar, for example…we can save hundreds of billions of dollars,” Roy, a conservative member of the House Freedom Caucus, told the host. He added other examples such as repealing the Inflation Reduction Act and a “return to non-defense to pre-Covid era explosion in spending” to also help reduce spending.
Source: Raw Story
OP - I believe this sums up the position of many Republicans. They hate to pay taxes to support people who they believe don’t work, especially if those people are not white. They claim to love Jesus, but feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger just isn’t their thing.
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