Amy McGrath
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Podcast Appearances
politics and policy, I guess.
One is when the president of the United States made this claim, very sort of arrogant lambasting claim, which basically said we've lifted 2.4 million Americans, a record off of food stamps.
And then Bobby, all of the Republicans said,
stand up, start clapping and cheering as if they're in North Korea.
And I'm thinking to myself, they're clapping for us ripping people off of food stamps.
2.4 million Americans who are in poverty, you know, kids, parents and families who can't afford food, or maybe they're in between jobs.
And we're like,
I just did an interview about the connection between SNAP and school lunches.
And so to me, when I saw all the Republicans standing up and clapping, I thought, you're clapping for โ
for, you know, more kids going to school hungry.
Exactly.
You know, that's what we're doing.
The other piece that really stood out at me was also when Republicans, you know, jumped up and clapped like they were in North Korea.
And it was after the president said a long rant about how Democrats can only win elections if they cheat.
You know, sowing this irresponsible lie that our elections are fraudulent.
He said, you know, cheating is rampant in our elections.
No, it's not.
And then he went on to say Democrats want to cheat.
And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat and we're going to stop it.
And so think about that.