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                         SNAP AND MEDICAID CUTS

  (Ms. CROCKETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CROCKETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today for a 28-year-old single 
mother of five in my district. She is doing everything right. She is 
working hard, raising her babies, and trying to keep them fed and 
healthy.
  She was receiving $1,000 a month in SNAP benefits. Then one day it 
was suddenly cut to $500. She picked up more hours because that is what 
moms do.
  In this bill they talk about people being lazy. I just want to say 
that the only thing that is lazy about this bill is their lies. That is 
because when we think about their lies and their lying, it relates to 
those who are going to be subjected to the work requirements.
  There are lies about cutting almost 14 million people off their 
healthcare. Frankly, they lie about this being fiscally responsible. 
You don't have to believe me, Mr. Speaker. Just Google members of the 
Freedom Caucus and their objections. They hate the fact that after all 
of this, we are going to have death, malnutrition, and the shuttering 
of hospitals both in rural and urban America. Yet still, they are going 
to drive us into further debt.
  When we talk about cutting SNAP, she was only going to get $15 a day 
or $2.50 per person.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to make sure that we don't choose cruelty over 
competency, callousness over compassion, and cons over constituents.
  Mr. Speaker, tell Republicans where they can cram this crap.

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