Newsmax host Rob Schmidt called SNAP an “ugly program” and used the tired trope that SNAP recipients are racist and deadbeats, to defend the Trump administration from refusing to fund it by cutting off SNAP benefits during the government shutdown.
SCHMITT: I mean this is a program that has exploded over the last 20 years.
And we are just dumping a hundred billion a year into a program that we all know is being so woefully corrupted and exploited.
People are selling their benefits, people are using them to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair.
I mean this is a really ugly program.
Now what demographic of Americans would be getting hair weaves?
It’s weird to me to hear Josh Hawley screaming that we have to protect this.
And that we’re not talking about why is it so ridiculously expensive and exploited and what can we do to make it better.
Sen. Josh Hawley seems to understand how cutting ACA subsidies and refusing to fund SNAP will hurt his voting bloc. Even though he votes for the worst possible crap for the Trump administration, at least he publicly admits what will happen when these vital programs end.
