Rep. Crockett: Cutting SNAP and Healthcare? That’s Not Policy, That’s Cruelty

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May 23, 2025

On the House floor, Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls out Republican cruelty and hypocrisy in their proposed SNAP and healthcare cuts. Speaking on behalf of a 28-year-old single mother of five from her district, Crockett highlights the real human cost behind the GOP’s so-called “fiscal responsibility.” From slashing food assistance to gutting healthcare access for millions, Crockett makes it plain: “The only thing lazy about this bill is their lies.” She urges Congress to reject cruelty disguised as policy—and to stand with working families, not political theater.

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thank you so much Mr Speaker I rise

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today for a 28-year-old single mother of

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five in my district She's doing

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everything right working hard raising

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her babies and trying to keep them fed

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and healthy She was receiving $1,000 a

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month in SNAP benefits Then one day it

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was suddenly cut to $500 So she picked

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up more hours because that's what moms

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do You know in this bill they talk about

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people being lazy And so I just want to

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say that the only thing that is lazy

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about this bill is their lies Because

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when we think about their lies they are

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lying as it relates to those that are

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going to be subjected to the work

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requirements There's lies about cutting

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almost 14 million people off their

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health care And frankly they lie about

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this being fiscally responsible because

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you don't have to believe me Just Google

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members of the Freedom Caucus and their

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objections because they hate the fact

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that after all of this we are going to

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have death malnutrition and shuttering

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of hospitals both in rural and urban

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America Yet still they are going to

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drive us into further debt So when we

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talk about cutting SNAP she was only

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going to get $15 a day or $2.50 per

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person Listen we need to make sure that

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we choose we do don't choose cruelty

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over competency callousness over

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compassion cons over constituents Tell

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Republicans where they can cram this

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crap