10 Nov 2025
Dear Brian,
So Bernie Sanders is claiming the resolution will "throw 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act"? How utterly fascinating, especially coming from someone whose entire political career revolves around redistributing other people's money. Let me walk you through what's ACTUALLY happening here, since you and Bernie seem to have the economic comprehension of a box of rocks and the attention span of a goldfish on roller skates.
First off, Senator Sanders seems to be one fry short of a Happy Meal if he thinks the clean CR is what's threatening healthcare. The Republican clean CR maintains STATUS QUO FUNDING. That means everything stays the same. No cuts. No changes. No "throwing people off" anything. What YOUR PARTY is demanding is an ADDITIONAL $1.5 TRILLION in spending, including extending TEMPORARY COVID RELIEF subsidies that were ALWAYS supposed to be temporary. That's enough money that if you stacked one-dollar bills, it would reach approximately 102,000 MILES HIGH—that's 408 TIMES TALLER THAN MOUNT EVEREST and would get you almost HALFWAY TO THE MOON. If those dollars were laid end to end, they would wrap around the EARTH'S EQUATOR 5,884 TIMES. We're talking about adding $18,750 per taxpayer to our national debt.
Let me educate you on what you're actually defending here, Brian. You're PRO-BIG HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES. That's right. You're carrying water for the same insurance industry fat cats that your party pretended to hate just a few years ago. Remember Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old who was arrested for allegedly targeting a healthcare CEO because of anti-insurance industry sentiment? Your party was practically canonizing him as some sort of folk hero. Now you're demanding we continue subsidizing these same insurance companies at taxpayer expense? Pick a lane, pal.
Here's what President Trump himself said: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare."
Why aren't YOU supporting Health Savings Accounts instead of this insurance company welfare program? HSAs give people ACTUAL CHOICE and CONTROL over their healthcare dollars. But no, you'd rather funnel billions to United Healthcare, Aetna, and Cigna while pretending you're helping the little guy. According to data analysis, average annual family health insurance premiums increased from about $6,000 in 2000 to around $27,000 projected in 2025. Meanwhile, federal health insurance subsidies and related spending per capita increased from roughly $4,800 in 2000 to over $13,000 projected by 2025. The passage of Obamacare in 2010 marks a distinct UPWARD trend in subsidy spending. So tell me again how this system is helping people?
Now let's talk about YOUR ridiculous fear-mongering about SNAP cuts. Why do YOU keep voting to defend SNAP? YOU CONTROL THE PURSE! Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress—not the President—the power to appropriate funds. There is a no-strings-attached CLEAN CR sitting there ready to pass! YOU can end this today and still come out ahead because Republicans are gaining NOTHING from the CLEAN CR! Instead, YOU are demanding to extend temporary COVID relief at a cost of nearly $20,000 PER TAXPAYER!
Your excuse that people will pay more for their Obamacare is telling and laughable. You are clearly saying Obamacare is really expensive without COVID relief, at the same time arguing that when the relief ends, prices will go up. Would you go to your boss and say, "Last month, you gave me a $1,000 Christmas bonus, so this month you cut my pay by $1,000, do you not have a heart, and you are taking away from my family by not giving me the same extra $1,000 you did last month!" That's EXACTLY what you're doing here.
Here's Quinn's Law #22 perfectly demonstrated: "Liberals love democracy unless it doesn't go their way." And Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." Democrats spent YEARS perfecting the "hostage-taking" rhetoric about government shutdowns. Chuck Schumer himself said in September 2013, "Why doesn't Speaker Boehner step up to the plate and do the right thing and allow a clean CR to go through?" Dick Durbin stated in 2013, "We have sent from the Senate a clean CR, no strings attached...to keep the government in business and not hurt the economy. That is what we should do."
This is literally the FIRST TIME EVER Schumer voted against a clean CR after supporting them 29 consecutive times. Even TWO of your own Democratic senators couldn't stomach the hypocrisy. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto broke ranks and voted WITH REPUBLICANS to pass the clean CR, saying: "This was wrong when Republicans did it, and it's the same now. It's wrong for our party to hold government hostage." Senator John Fetterman joined her, stating: "It was wrong when Republicans did this. Now it's our party—it's wrong."
Those two Democrats have more integrity in their pinky fingers than your entire party leadership combined. They remembered what YOU YOURSELVES said about hostage-taking. They remembered what YOU YOURSELVES said about keeping government open FIRST and negotiating LATER.
Oh, and speaking of credibility, Brian—you're a LIAR who is WITHHOLDING MONEY FROM COMBAT VETERANS. Remember your public challenge? I conquered it and provided clear proof in my response, meeting every single condition you laid out. You publicly promised $10,000, and now you've gone completely silent.
That's $10,000 you're STEALING from medically retired combat-injured veterans because I pledged to use every penny to boost posts supporting the MAJOR RICHARD STAR ACT—legislation that would help veterans who sacrificed their bodies for this country receive their full earned retirement benefits. But apparently your word means nothing, and you'd rather withhold support from wounded warriors than honor your own challenge.
Pay up, liar. Combat veterans are waiting. Maybe between your virtue-signaling retweets and defending insurance companies, you could honor your commitments for once.
Here's the bottom line, Bernie and Brian: If all you're doing is giving out more handouts instead of creating opportunities for people to lift themselves up, you're just pro-slavery with extra steps. Democrats NEED an underclass that will continue to vote for whoever will take the most money from others and give it to them, thus keeping Democrats in power. That's the same playbook you used in the antebellum South—creating a dependent population to control. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Republicans are offering a CLEAN CR that keeps government running at current levels. YOUR PARTY is holding 42 million SNAP recipients, active-duty military, air traffic controllers, and TSA agents hostage until you get your $1.5 trillion insurance company bailout. That's not governing. That's extortion.
So which is it, Brian? Were you LYING when your party condemned hostage-taking and ransom demands during Trump's first term? Or are you LYING now when you pretend that's not exactly what you're doing? Because it can't be both.
#CleanCR #StopTheShutdown #ConstitutionalAuthority #ArticleI #DefendSNAP #MajorRichardStarAct #SupportOurVeterans #PayUpKrassenstein #InsuranceCompanyWelfare #StopTheHypocrisy #QuinnsLaws #ProSlaveryDemocrats @elonmusk
Link to Major Richard Star Act petition: [INSERT PETITION LINK]
Link to One Big Beautiful Bill Act: congress.gov/bill/119th-cong…
Link to Brian's unpaid challenge: x.com/krassenstein/status/19…
Link to my proof: x.com/BskiMike22802/status/1…
2 Oct 2025
Dear Brian,
Oh, you want to play the "$10,000 challenge" game? How delightfully confident! Let me educate you on how Washington actually works, since you seem to think legislation operates like a Twitter thread where everything is spelled out in simple terms.
You're right that the Democrat CR bill (S.2882) doesn't explicitly state "healthcare for illegal immigrants" in bold letters. That's not how legislative sleight-of-hand works, and you know it. But here's what your party does consistently: you say one thing publicly while doing the exact opposite in legislation. It's like watching a magician who keeps accidentally revealing the card up their sleeve.
First, let's clarify something important: We're currently in Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Many people don't realize this because the calendar year is still 2025, but the federal government's fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30. So when we talk about "FY2025 funding levels," we're talking about LAST year's budget, and the CR is proposing to continue those old rules into the current fiscal year.
Now let me walk you through the actual legislative mechanics, with specific line numbers, and explain this in plain English. The Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) contains Section 71109 starting on page 227, line 8 through page 228, titled "Alien Medicaid Eligibility." This section amends the Social Security Act to add paragraph (5) to Section 1903(v), stating that beginning October 1, 2026, states would NOT be able to receive federal Medicaid dollars for providing healthcare to anyone who isn't a U.S. citizen or specific categories of legal immigrants. This is a future restriction—it doesn't take effect until 2026, which is AFTER the current CR period ends.
Section 71110 on page 228, "Expansion FMAP for Emergency Medicaid," penalizes states that provide Medicaid coverage to undocumented immigrants by dropping their federal matching rate from 90% to 80%. In other words, the federal government would pay LESS for those states' Medicaid programs, forcing states to either pay more themselves or stop covering undocumented immigrants.
Now here's where the Democrat CR Bill (S.2882) comes in with its magic trick. Section 101 on page 2, lines 14-24, states: "Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided for fiscal year 2025 and under the authority and conditions provided, for continuing projects or activities... that were conducted in fiscal year 2025." Translation: Keep funding everything at 2025 levels, using the same rules that applied in 2025. Since H.R. 1's restrictions don't take effect until October 1, 2026, the CR maintains the OLD SYSTEM where these restrictions don't exist. Section 106 on page 4, lines 19-25, makes these appropriations available until October 31, 2025—BEFORE the Republican restrictions in H.R. 1 would take effect.
Here's the key issue and the sleight-of-hand: The Republican restrictions in H.R. 1 don't start until October 1, 2026. The Democrat CR only funds the government through October 31, 2025. So the Democrat CR maintains the current system where fourteen states CAN use federal Medicaid matching funds (at the enhanced 90% rate) to help cover undocumented immigrants—because the restrictions aren't in place yet. When the CR expires, Democrats will push for another CR or a full appropriations bill that AGAIN doesn't include the Republican restrictions. It's legislative kicking-the-can-down-the-road to prevent the reforms from ever taking effect.
Think of it like this: Republicans passed a law saying "starting next year, we're locking the cookie jar." Democrats are saying "let's keep using this month's rules" (when the jar is still unlocked) and will keep saying that every month to prevent the lock from ever being installed.
Here's what's particularly rich about Democrat behavior: you always show your hand by fighting hardest against the things you claim aren't happening. If these fourteen states weren't using federal Medicaid matching funds for undocumented immigrants, why would you oppose restrictions preventing it? It's like someone insisting they're not stealing cookies while simultaneously fighting to remove the lock on the cookie jar. If you weren't planning to take cookies, why do you care about the lock?
Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator, stated in May 2025: "Medicaid is not, and cannot be, a backdoor pathway to subsidize open borders. States have a duty to uphold the law and protect taxpayer funds. We are putting them on notice—CMS will not allow federal dollars to be diverted to cover those who are not lawfully eligible." Yet here we are, with Democrats demanding a CR that prevents these very restrictions from taking effect. The question isn't whether the language appears—it's why you're fighting to maintain a system that allows this spending.
The facts are stubborn: Fourteen states currently provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants: California, New York, Illinois, Washington, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont. California provides full-scope Medi-Cal to ALL income-eligible adults regardless of immigration status. New York and Illinois provide coverage to older adults over 65. Oregon provides full health plan benefits to people of ANY AGE or immigration status. Massachusetts, Maine, and Colorado have similar expansions.
If states eliminate their coverage for immigrants to avoid the penalty in H.R. 1 Section 71110, more than 1.9 MILLION people could lose their health coverage. The change to the federal match for the ACA Medicaid population in these states would shift $92 BILLION in costs from the federal government to states over ten years.
CNN even reported on September 30, 2025: "A number of states use their own funds to provide coverage to children and at least some low-income adults." But here's the sleight-of-hand: those "state funds" are leveraged with federal Medicaid matching dollars—particularly the enhanced 90% match rate under the ACA expansion. For every dollar California spends on Medi-Cal, the federal government contributes $9. That's YOUR tax money from Mississippi, Texas, and Florida funding California's policy choices.
Here's another Democrat tell: you claim Republicans are lying about healthcare for "illegal aliens" while simultaneously defending state programs that do exactly that. It's the political equivalent of saying "I'm not touching you" while your finger hovers an inch from someone's face. You're technically correct that the CR doesn't say "fund healthcare for illegal immigrants," but it maintains the funding mechanism that allows exactly that.
The Supreme Court weighed in on this issue in June 2025 with Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, confirming that states have constitutional authority over healthcare regulation—but that doesn't mean federal taxpayers should subsidize those state decisions through matching funds.
So here's my counterchallenge: Explain why Democrats are fighting so desperately to block restrictions on spending that you claim isn't happening. Explain why you oppose DOGE's efforts to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. Explain why Mississippi, Texas, and Florida taxpayers should fund California's healthcare expansion to undocumented immigrants through federal matching dollars.
As for your $10,000 challenge? I'd rather you invest that in boosting posts about the Major Richard Star Act (x.com/BskiMike22802/status/1…)—legislation that would actually help disabled veterans who sacrificed for this country receive the full benefits they've earned, rather than wasting money on political theater. The funding isn't "hidden" in the bill—it's continued through the mechanism of maintaining FY2025 appropriations without the Republican restrictions that don't take effect until 2026. That's how CRs work. They don't create new programs; they continue existing ones. And the existing system allows exactly what you claim isn't happening.
Maybe between your confident Twitter challenges and moral grandstanding, you could address the actual substance of how federal Medicaid matching works, why your party opposes basic eligibility verification, and why you're so opposed to transparency and accountability.
FOOTNOTES:
H.R. 1, Section 71109, page 227-228: Restricts alien Medicaid eligibility beginning October 1, 2026
H.R. 1, Section 71110, page 228: Penalizes states providing coverage to undocumented immigrants by reducing federal matching rate from 90% to 80%
S.2882, Section 101, page 2: Continues FY2025 funding levels, which do NOT include H.R. 1 restrictions
S.2882, Section 106, page 4: Funding expires October 31, 2025—before H.R. 1 restrictions take effect
Fourteen states provide health coverage to undocumented migrants: California, New York, Illinois, Washington, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont
If states eliminate coverage to avoid penalties, more than 1.9 million could lose health coverage, with $92 billion in costs shifted from federal to state governments over ten years
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, May 27, 2025: "Medicaid is not, and cannot be, a backdoor pathway to subsidize open borders"
CNN, September 30, 2025: "A number of states use their own funds to provide coverage to children and at least some low-income adults"
Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, June 2025: Supreme Court confirmed states have constitutional authority over healthcare regulation
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WHAT!!! Senator Andy Kim just admitted that 12.5% of our population is on food stamps!!! Every single member of Congress needs to be FIRED because of the policies that allowed this disaster to happen!!!
First, what happened to the WAR ON POVERTY? Since 1964, we've spent over $22 TRILLION on anti-poverty programs – that's enough to give EVERY poor person in America approximately $600,000 if we'd just handed them the cash directly. Yet here we are, with MORE people on food stamps NOW than during the GREAT DEPRESSION when unemployment hit 25%!!! How is this even possible in what they keep calling "the richest, most powerful country in the world"?
Let's talk about Senator Kim's "weaponizing hunger" claim, because apparently he's more interested in political theater than addressing the REAL problem. The President isn't refusing to fund SNAP – there's a CLEAN CONTINUING RESOLUTION that would keep SNAP funded at current levels. It's the DEMOCRATS who've voted AGAINST IT FOURTEEN TIMES because they're demanding an extra $1.5 TRILLION in spending as the price for reopening government!
That's enough money that if you stacked one-dollar bills, it would reach approximately 102,000 MILES HIGH – 408 TIMES TALLER THAN MOUNT EVEREST and would get you almost HALFWAY TO THE MOON. If those dollars were laid end to end, they would wrap around the EARTH'S EQUATOR 5,884 TIMES. $1.5 trillion means adding $18,750 per person to our national debt – or $75,000 for a family of four!
But here's what really gets me – instead of discussing who's "responsible for defending SNAP" (which is the Democrats who've blocked funding it 14 times), maybe our discussion should be about WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PEOPLE ON SNAP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Why, during what Democrats keep calling a "booming economy," do we have MORE people dependent on food stamps than during the WORST economic crisis in American history? During the Great Depression, roughly 9% of Americans needed food assistance. Today, in this supposedly "richest, most powerful country," that number is 12.5%! That's not progress – that's a catastrophic FAILURE of policy!
Here's Quinn's Law #1 in action: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." Democrats claim to help the poor while their policies have created a PERMANENT UNDERCLASS more dependent on government handouts than at any time in history – including the Depression when people were literally selling apples on street corners!
Let's talk about what the Constitution actually says about federal welfare programs. The TENTH AMENDMENT reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the STATES and the PEOPLE. Food assistance, housing, healthcare, and other welfare programs are NOT enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8. James Madison warned in Federalist No. 45 that federal powers are "few and defined" while state powers are "numerous and indefinite."
Alexander Hamilton explicitly stated in Federalist No. 17 that "the administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature...are proper to be provided for by local legislation" and "can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction."
Why is the FEDERAL government running these programs in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Tenth Amendment? These programs should be handled at the STATE level, where communities can tailor assistance to their specific needs and actually track whether people are being helped or just made permanently dependent!
But let's get to the heart of the matter – why are 42 MILLION Americans on food stamps when unemployment is supposedly low? I'll tell you why:
The Democrat WAR ON POVERTY created a system that INCENTIVIZES dependency rather than self-sufficiency. When Lyndon Johnson launched these programs in 1964, the black family was largely intact – only 25% of black children lived without fathers. Today, after TRILLIONS in welfare spending, that number is 75%! Black Americans were economically BETTER OFF in the 1950s under Jim Crow laws than they are today after 60 years of Democrat "help"!
Charles Murray documented in "Losing Ground" how welfare programs systematically destroyed the family unit by penalizing marriage and rewarding single-parent households. Democrats created a system where a woman with children makes MORE money staying unmarried and unemployed than getting married to a working man. They've made poverty PAY BETTER than work!
Here's what they REFUSE to acknowledge: The poorest 20% of Americans today have higher material living standards than the MIDDLE CLASS in most European countries. They have refrigerators, air conditioning, vehicles, cell phones, and access to emergency healthcare. America's "poverty" problem isn't that people are starving – it's that Democrat policies have created a culture of DEPENDENCY that robs people of dignity and purpose!
You know what's REALLY immoral and cruel? Telling people they're VICTIMS who can't succeed without government handouts. Creating a permanent underclass that will reliably vote Democrat because they've been convinced Republicans want to take away their benefits – which is exactly what Senator Kim is doing right now with this "weaponizing hunger" nonsense!
The Democrats need an underclass to maintain power – just like they needed one in the antebellum South. They've replaced the plantation with the welfare office, but the goal is the same: keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises the most handouts, and maintain political control!
Instead of grandstanding about "weaponizing hunger," how about answering these questions:
Why won't Democrats vote for the CLEAN CR that would fund SNAP immediately with NO CONDITIONS?
Why are they demanding $1.5 TRILLION in additional spending (including healthcare for undocumented immigrants) as the price for feeding American citizens?
Why has poverty INCREASED under Democrat policies despite spending $22 TRILLION to fight it?
Why do they oppose work requirements that would help people develop skills and self-sufficiency?
Here's a revolutionary concept: Maybe instead of measuring success by HOW MANY people are on government assistance, we should measure it by HOW FEW people need it! Maybe instead of fighting to expand dependency, we should fight to expand OPPORTUNITY! Maybe instead of making poverty comfortable, we should make WORK rewarding!
But that would require actually solving problems instead of just perpetuating them for political gain. It would require admitting that SIXTY YEARS of Democrat poverty programs have been an ABJECT FAILURE that's made the problem WORSE. It would require acknowledging that their policies have destroyed families, devastated communities, and created generational poverty in every major city run by Democrats for the past half-century!
You want to talk about what's immoral? What's immoral is spending $22 TRILLION of taxpayer money and having MORE poverty than when you started. What's cruel is telling people they can't succeed on their own. What must "come to an end" is a welfare system that traps people in dependency instead of lifting them into prosperity!
So here's the challenge: Democrats should VOTE FOR THE CLEAN CR and fund SNAP today. Stop holding 42 million Americans hostage to a $1.5 trillion ransom demand. Then sit down and have an HONEST conversation about why 1 in 8 Americans need food stamps in the "richest, most powerful country in the world" and what we're going to do to FIX the policies that created this disaster!
Or they can keep grandstanding for social media likes while people go hungry because THEY won't vote for the clean funding bill. But don't you DARE blame the President when DEMOCRATS have voted against funding SNAP FOURTEEN TIMES!
The American people deserve better than poverty pimps who profit politically from their suffering. They deserve policies that WORK. They deserve leaders who actually want to SOLVE problems instead of just managing them for votes.
#DefendSNAP #VoteForCleanCR #EndWelfareState #TenthAmendment #WarOnPovertyFailed #DemocratHypocrisy #QuinnsLaws #WorkNotWelfare #FamiliesNotDependency #ConstitutionalLimits #ActuallyHelpPeople #StopTheRansom #SenatorAndyKim
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Senator Andy Kim,
WHAT!!! You're telling me that 12.5% of our population is on food stamps!!! Every single member of Congress needs to be FIRED because of the policies that allowed this disaster to happen!!!
First, what happened to the WAR ON POVERTY? Since 1964, we've spent over $22 TRILLION on anti-poverty programs – that's enough to give EVERY poor person in America approximately $600,000 if we'd just handed them the cash directly. Yet here we are, with MORE people on food stamps NOW than during the GREAT DEPRESSION when unemployment hit 25%!!! How is this even possible in what you keep calling "the richest, most powerful country in the world"?
Let's talk about that "weaponizing hunger" claim, because apparently you're more interested in political theater than addressing the REAL problem. The President isn't refusing to fund SNAP – there's a CLEAN CONTINUING RESOLUTION sitting right there that would keep SNAP funded at current levels. It's YOUR PARTY that's voted AGAINST IT FOURTEEN TIMES because you're demanding an extra $1.5 TRILLION in spending as the price for reopening government!
That's enough money that if you stacked one-dollar bills, it would reach approximately 102,000 MILES HIGH – 408 TIMES TALLER THAN MOUNT EVEREST and would get you almost HALFWAY TO THE MOON. If those dollars were laid end to end, they would wrap around the EARTH'S EQUATOR 5,884 TIMES. $1.5 trillion means adding $18,750 per person to our national debt – or $75,000 for a family of four!
But here's what really chaps my hide, Senator – instead of discussing who's "responsible for defending SNAP" (which is YOU and YOUR COLLEAGUES who've blocked funding it 14 times), maybe our discussion should be about WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PEOPLE ON SNAP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Why, during what Democrats keep calling a "booming economy," do we have MORE people dependent on food stamps than during the WORST economic crisis in American history? During the Great Depression, roughly 9% of Americans needed food assistance. Today, in your "richest, most powerful country," that number is 12.5%! That's not progress, Senator – that's a catastrophic FAILURE of policy!
Here's Quinn's Law #1 in action: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." You claim to help the poor while your policies have created a PERMANENT UNDERCLASS more dependent on government handouts than at any time in history – including the Depression when people were literally selling apples on street corners!
Let's talk about what the Constitution actually says about federal welfare programs, since you seem mighty comfortable ignoring it. The TENTH AMENDMENT reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the STATES and the PEOPLE. Food assistance, housing, healthcare, and other welfare programs are NOT enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8. James Madison warned in Federalist No. 45 that federal powers are "few and defined" while state powers are "numerous and indefinite."
Alexander Hamilton explicitly stated in Federalist No. 17 that "the administration of private justice between the citizens of the same State, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature...are proper to be provided for by local legislation" and "can never be desirable cares of a general jurisdiction."
Even in Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Supreme Court case that upheld Social Security, the Court recognized these programs represent a dramatic expansion beyond the original constitutional design. The General Welfare Clause doesn't grant Congress unlimited spending authority – it limits spending to matters that benefit the NATION AS A WHOLE, not individual citizens or local concerns.
Senator, why is the FEDERAL government running these programs in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Tenth Amendment? These programs should be handled at the STATE level, where communities can tailor assistance to their specific needs, implement accountability measures, and actually track whether people are being helped or just made permanently dependent!
But let's get to the heart of the matter – why are 42 MILLION Americans on food stamps when unemployment is supposedly low and the economy is supposedly strong? I'll tell you why:
Your party's WAR ON POVERTY created a system that INCENTIVIZES dependency rather than self-sufficiency. When Lyndon Johnson launched these programs in 1964, the black family was largely intact – only 25% of black children lived without fathers. Today, after TRILLIONS in welfare spending, that number is 75%! Black Americans were economically BETTER OFF in the 1950s under Jim Crow laws than they are today after 60 years of Democrat "help"!
Charles Murray documented in "Losing Ground" how welfare programs systematically destroyed the family unit by penalizing marriage and rewarding single-parent households. You created a system where a woman with children makes MORE money staying unmarried and unemployed than getting married to a working man. Congratulations – you've made poverty PAY BETTER than work!
Here's what you REFUSE to acknowledge: The poorest 20% of Americans today have higher material living standards than the MIDDLE CLASS in most European countries. They have refrigerators, air conditioning, vehicles, cell phones, and access to emergency healthcare. America's "poverty" problem isn't that people are starving – it's that Democrat policies have created a culture of DEPENDENCY that robs people of dignity, purpose, and the satisfaction of providing for themselves!
You know what's REALLY immoral and cruel, Senator? Telling people they're VICTIMS who can't succeed without government handouts. Telling them the system is rigged against them so they might as well not even try. Creating a permanent underclass that will reliably vote Democrat because you've convinced them Republicans want to take away their benefits – which is exactly what you're doing right now with this "weaponizing hunger" nonsense!
The Democrats need an underclass to maintain power – just like you needed one in the antebellum South. You've replaced the plantation with the welfare office, but the goal is the same: keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises the most handouts, and maintain your political control!
Instead of grandstanding about "weaponizing hunger," how about you answer these questions:
Why won't you vote for the CLEAN CR that would fund SNAP immediately with NO CONDITIONS?
Why are you demanding $1.5 TRILLION in additional spending (including healthcare for undocumented immigrants) as the price for feeding American citizens?
Why has poverty INCREASED under Democrat policies despite spending $22 TRILLION to fight it?
Why do you oppose work requirements that would help people develop skills and self-sufficiency?
What have YOU personally done to help people GET OFF food stamps rather than just get ON them?
Here's a revolutionary concept, Senator: Maybe instead of measuring success by HOW MANY people are on government assistance, we should measure it by HOW FEW people need it! Maybe instead of fighting to expand dependency, you should fight to expand OPPORTUNITY! Maybe instead of making poverty comfortable, you should make WORK rewarding!
But that would require actually solving problems instead of just perpetuating them for political gain. It would require admitting that SIXTY YEARS of Democrat poverty programs have been an ABJECT FAILURE that's made the problem WORSE. It would require acknowledging that your policies have destroyed families, devastated communities, and created generational poverty in every major city run by Democrats for the past half-century!
You want to talk about what's immoral? What's immoral is spending $22 TRILLION of taxpayer money and having MORE poverty than when you started. What's cruel is telling people they can't succeed on their own. What must "come to an end" is a welfare system that traps people in dependency instead of lifting them into prosperity!
So here's my challenge to you, Senator Andy Kim: VOTE FOR THE CLEAN CR and fund SNAP today. Stop holding 42 million Americans hostage to your $1.5 trillion ransom demand. Then sit down and have an HONEST conversation about why 1 in 8 Americans need food stamps in the "richest, most powerful country in the world" and what we're going to do to FIX the policies that created this disaster!
Or you can keep grandstanding for Twitter likes while people go hungry because YOU won't vote for the clean funding bill sitting right in front of you. Your choice, Senator. But don't you DARE blame the President when YOUR PARTY has voted against funding SNAP FOURTEEN TIMES!
The American people deserve better than poverty pimps who profit politically from their suffering. They deserve policies that WORK. They deserve leaders who actually want to SOLVE problems instead of just managing them for votes.
#DefendSNAP #VoteForCleanCR #EndWelfareState #TenthAmendment #WarOnPovertyFailed #DemocratHypocrisy #QuinnsLaws #WorkNotWelfare #FamiliesNotDependency #ConstitutionalLimits #ActuallyHelpPeople #StopTheRansom #FeedAmericansNow
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The very same politicians who love tweeting #DefendSNAP during farm bill negotiations are the ones who voted against funding SNAP and the federal government.
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Carlos Morales, a member of Project Bread’s Council of Experts, shares why it’s critical to protect SNAP. Food is an essential human right, not a luxury. It should be a no-brainer that everyone deserves the right to access and afford food with dignity.
#DefendSNAP #ProtectSNAP
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Thank you @RepPressley for your strong leadership in opposing SNAP & Medicaid cuts. We proudly stand with you to #DefendSNAP & other vital programs that help our most vulnerable neighbors afford basic needs and make ends meet. #MakeHungerHistoryMA #SNAPmatters #HandsOffSNAP
21 May 2025
Medicaid and SNAP aren't just line items in a budget — they're lifelines.
Today we told Donald Trump and Republicans:
Hands off our healthcare. Hands off our food. Hands off our bodies.
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Thank you @RepMcGovern for your unwavering leadership to #DefendSNAP. As a true champion to people facing hunger, you lift their voices on Capitol Hill & fight fiercely. We proudly stand with you in the effort to help folks put food on the table. #SNAPmatters #MakeHungerHistoryMA
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House Republicans believe they can snip ✂️ $230 BILLION from SNAP that feeds hard-working families, children, veterans, and more.
They're taking food off of your table to give billionaires more money.
No one should go hungry in the richest country in the world. #DefendSNAP
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Democrats say SNAP fraud is the exception, not the rule. But yet, we see headlines like these on an almost weekly basis.
"Baby formula, energy drinks sold on black market in $2.4M SNAP fraud case, 17 arrested" #DefendSNAP koin.com/news/portland/baby-…
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31 Aug 2024
"The choices made by Congress will decide whether we maintain SNAP and continue to help our neighbors or weaken it and allow vulnerable Americans to fall through the cracks," writes Ranking Member @RepDavidScott for @AJC. We will #DefendSNAP. ajc.com/opinion/opinion-as-s…
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A healthy country is a strong country, and nutrition programs like SNAP ensure Americans get the food they need. #DefendSnap 2/2
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19 Aug 2024
American families can’t afford the Republicans’ $30 billion cut to food assistance programs. #DefendSNAP
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15 Aug 2024
Food security is national security. That is why House Democrats cannot support a Republican farm bill that takes $30 billion in food assistance away from hungry parents, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. #DefendSNAP
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23 May 2024
Here is the press statement from @Voice4HumanNeed member @bread4theworld that @RepJahanaHayes just mentioned in the #FarmBill markup.
Many CHN members have weighed in -- and are watching to see if Congress will #DefendSNAP!
23 May 2024
The #FarmBill is our nation’s most important anti-hunger legislation. It includes SNAP and international food aid. Today, the House Agriculture Committee is marking up their version of the 2024 farm bill.
Read Bread's statement: bit.ly/4axC2TZ
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23 May 2024
Over 46,000 households in the First District rely on SNAP to get food on the table. @RepJahanaHayes and I are fighting with our Democratic colleagues to #DefendSNAP from House Republicans' devastating cuts that would mean $280 million less for Connecticut families.
23 May 2024
Last night, I led a Special Order Hour on the importance of protecting #SNAP.
Hunger continues to be a pervasive issue in America. Cuts to SNAP would put millions at risk.
Democrats are united in protecting SNAP and ensuring families in need can put food on the table.
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23 May 2024
“As an organization committed to working for equity and justice for women, children, and families, National Council of Jewish Women is deeply concerned that Chairman Thompson’s proposal would significantly reduce these desperately-needed benefits,” says @NCJW. #DefendSNAP
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22 May 2024
.@HouseDemocrats aren't going to support your #FarmBill
It takes food away from low-income households, veterans, children, disabled, and the elderly by defunding the SNAP benefits by $30 million. #DefendSNAP
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22 May 2024
My congressman, Don Bacon, keeps saying that the *NEW* Farm Bill is great.
It's not. Not when you take food from hungry kids.
We should #DefendSNAP.
#NE02 #NotNebraskaNice
21 May 2024
Extremist Republicans are once again trying to cut SNAP benefits in the Farm Bill.
The same Republicans in Congress who are happy to give tax cuts to their billionaire buddies.
#TX35 needs a Farm Bill focused on feeding families, not padding pockets.
newrepublic.com/article/1817…
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20 May 2024
The drastic cuts to SNAP proposed by MAGA Republicans would affect 29% of households in #MI13 and would cause Michiganders to lose almost $1 billion in benefits.
I’ll work day and night to be sure they never take food off a working family’s dinner table. #DefendSNAP.
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20 May 2024
"When children go to school hungry, they can’t learn. When parents eat less because they can’t afford enough food, their jobs and health suffer," write @cgrand3 and @KelvinBeachumJr write in an op-ed arguing that we must #DefendSNAP in the #FarmBill. agri-pulse.com/articles/2112…
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