Steve Bannon endorses cutting food stamp benefits
Bannon: “There's so many hard cuts that have to happen, like you're talking about out of food stamps. Nobody's going to be cheerful about cutting food stamps, but you're right, you got to."
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From the December 18, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
SEN. TOMMY TUBERVILLE (GUEST): But the problem is I got with the farm bill is it's gonna be $1.5 trillion and $200 billion goes to the farmers in a five year period, and $1.3 trillion -
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Food stamps.
TUBERVILLE: Goes to food stamps. Now if we need to start cutting and, and you know that DOGE group is going to start looking at that, people got to go back to work. We need to take care of the elderly, the veterans, people with mental - with illnesses, but everybody else has got to go back to work or we're not gonna make it.
BANNON: You go back to work and also that's all the process - the ones pushing that are all the food companies on the ultra-processed food that the folks on welfare - we got to - if you're going to get healthy and get back to the folks not having the burden on Medicaid and Medicare and all that, we got to get the country healthier and the problem with the food stamps is not just the food stamps, it's the companies pushing that 1.2 trillion. It's all the, it's all the ultra-processed food.
Now unfortunately it's a lot of the food I like, but it's food product, but we got to - here's the thing. There's so many hard cuts that have to happen, like you're talking about out of food stamps. Nobody's going to be cheerful about cutting food stamps, but you're right, you got to - There are hard decisions about putting food on the table for people or giving access to it that have to be made or we're just not going to be a country anymore.