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- #61
Since NONE of you have the balls to admit when your wrong ill do it for you. Here is what the bill actually does:
Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) rejected those assertions and said the GOP bill cuts only from discretionary programs, not the mandatory food stamp and child nutrition programs.
So while my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are talking about this dreadful calamity associated with the cuts in this bill, the fact of the matter is, food programs get more money under this bill, and thats because they are mandatory programs, Lummis said. The committee has no control over them. The only thing we have control over are the discretionary programs.
The bill, H.R. 2112, would cut $2.7 million in discretionary spending from current levels, $5 billion lower than the Obama administrations requests. But it still provides $117 billion in mandatory spending programs such as food stamps.
I don't know who is dumber: that woman for making the claim that the cut is actually an increase, or you for believing her.
Another quote:
Several Democrats noted that the bill would cut the Women Infants and Childrens (WIC) nutrition program, along with several others. But Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) argued that the $686 million cut is warranted given a 300,000 drop in the number of participants in that program over the last year.
We will make sure no one falls through the cracks, Kingston added. There are three contingency funds which can be drawn on if that happens.
Kingston and others also noted that Democrats cut more than $500 million from WIC last year, and moved the money to an unrelated account. Where was the screaming and hollering then? he asked.