GOP Congressman: Use food stamp & PP money for border wall

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Jesus. Monstrous  

[Kermit 15,807]

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is calling for using federal funding for Planned Parenthood and food stamps to help pay for President Trump’s southern border wall, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee introduced a spending bill that would allocate $1.6 billion toward building the wall separating the U.S. from Mexico. The funding is part of the total $13.8 billion for Customs and Border Protection.

King said he supports the spending measure, but he would prefer an additional $5 billion for the wall — and suggested taking the extra funding from Planned Parenthood and federal welfare programs.

 “I would find half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood's budget," he told the Examiner. "And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people that haven't worked in three generations."

"We've got to put America back to work, this administration will do it," King said.

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood said the group “receives federal funding the same way as every other hospital or community health care provider: through Medicaid reimbursements,” adding that King’s comments make no sense.

“For Rep. Steve King to propose using Medicaid reimbursements to pay for a border wall is nonsensical and cruel. Blocking individuals on Medicaid from going to Planned Parenthood for preventive care will result in people losing access to care,” Erica Sackin said.

King went on that he believes the border wall would create millions of new jobs and reduce the amount of public assistance people would need.

King added that food stamps were created to fight malnutrition but that the people who benefit from these programs are now overweight.

"Now we have a problem of obesity," he said. "And when you match up the [Electronics Benefits Transfer] card with what the scales say on some of the folks, I think it's worth looking at. [Former first lady] Michelle Obamalooked at it, Republicans should be able to look at it too."

 

 

 

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[Hola Soraya 4,367]

This is so disgusting.  I mean they're not even pretending to be evil anymore and that's simply disconcerting.  

When I first read the thread I thought it was Stephen King and I was really confused for a second! 

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

that's low.... :millie: 

[Reginald 13,841]

These Republicans are so willfully ignorant.  I can't wait until the mid-term elections.

[Kermit 15,807]

27 minutes ago, Hola Soraya said:

I thought it was Stephen King

get out (jk)  he would n e v e r

[Hola Soraya 4,367]

1 minute ago, Kermit said:

get out of my thread (jk )  he would n e v e r

jk xoxo  

[FATCAT 60,888]

Steve King is a racist son-of-a-bitch, and knows that when he makes ignorant comments like these it riles his base.

[Born To Slay 10,996]

He says building this useless wall will create jobs. If we're gonna invest in something to spend jobs, why not our crumbling infrastructure? That's something actually useful. But no we're gonna go with a wall that will fail at what it's supposed to do and really just serves as a symbol to the rest of the world that we r racist.

[venusfly 17,885]

@Kermit I've merged your thread, this was already posted.

[Kermit 15,807]

Just now, Venusfly said:

@Kermit I've merged your thread, this was already posted.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't check.  Thank you.