Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got called out today by a Democrat during a House hearing on food assistance and other social programs that benefit children and senior citizens.
The House Oversight Committee was in session to discuss tax cuts proposed by the Trump administration to benefit the richest Americans. One member of the committee, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), proposed an amendment to the tax cut legislation that would spare cuts in social programs that benefit vulnerable people.
“I would hope that my friends across the aisle, of course, I doubt they will, would support this amendment,” Stansbury said. “We know that over 150,000 New Mexicans, especially our elders, our seniors, and our low-income families, would lose access to food assistance, whether that’s SNAP assistance to buy groceries or whether that’s school lunches if these cuts go through.”
That led Green to remark, “This is a budget process. And so for the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are sitting here trying to score points and spread more lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to spread more garbage across the country.”
“And I just wanted to point that out for the people watching at home so they are not swayed by this entertainment today.”
Stansbury said she took umbrage with Greene for using “the word garbage to refer to our fight to protect your Social Security.”
“I am so sorry, but seniors, veterans, children whose parents have died, kids on school lunches are not garbage!” she added. “The American people are asking us to fight for them and the fight for their rights, for the funding that keeps them alive, the fight to help the people of this country is not garbage.”
But the Democrat from New Mexico was just getting warmed up.
“And the entire argument that’s being put forward here today, that cutting a few little pieces here and there and decimating the federal workforce and these programs is somehow going to save the deficit, is literally a bold-faced lie,” Stansbury continued. “The CBO says it is going to raise the debt by five trillion dollars.”
“So if you’re going to sit here and say it’s not going to raise the debt, you’re just lying.”
Well done, Congresswoman Stansbury! This is the way every Democrat should counter the heartless schemes of the GOP. They don’t give a damn about anyone but their rich donors. The rest of us can go to hell.
