[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 61 (Monday, April 16, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3330]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S WAR ON THE WORKING POOR

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Mr. Speaker, I have never met a person who wakes up in the 
morning and says: I want to be poor today. That is just not the 
reality.
  Yet my colleagues across the aisle, and their friends in the White 
House, keep pushing this false narrative that people who rely on 
government assistance to make ends meet are moochers who take 
government handouts and buy drugs.
  Mr. Speaker, in my district, 17.9 percent of households rely on SNAP 
to feed their families. They aren't lazy. They aren't addicts. They are 
hardworking people, some of them with two and three jobs, just trying 
to make ends meet.
  The United States Government should be making it easier for Americans 
to maintain a decent standard of living. Let us end this 
administration's war on the working poor and help make better lives for 
all of our citizens.

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