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Group of people who believe t t ththa that -- i will vote for the person who can make sure i have a job and my kids are fed, that i have decent schools to send my children to, that my streets are safe. i think it's a complex question, but i think overall people are going to vote for the person that they believe most has their interests at heart. >> before i run out of time, i have to ask you this. you're chairwoman of the agricultural subcommittee on nutrition. earlier this week the trump administration approved a rule kicking thousands of americans off s.n.a.p. assistance, or foofrfood stamps...

Looking at the national unemployment rate and see that it's coming down, which it is overall, but there are pockets in this country that are not coming down and they are high unemployment areas and this is the areas that people will, in fact, be impacted. areas between let's say 4 and 6 or 6.5 percent unemployment where it's very difficult to get a job and, again, a lot of people moving in, veterans, veterans families, rural americans and there's just no reason to do it right now. by the way, congress has rejected this specific proposal at least twice on a bipartisan basis during the last few ...

>> i think for me the other thing that is critical in our part, sasha, and moving forward, the number of people who are working and poor. those looking at s.n.a.p. households, those getting the supplemental nutritional benefits, working-annal, nondisabled adults, they have a high work rate so those employed within the past year 87% of households where people receive s.n.a.p. assistance have people who have worked in the past year. you know, this idea that people can, in fact, be in poverty potentially even be homeless and yet be workers, that does feel like a violation of the american dream. >...

And we have 6 million people whose only income was from food stamps. that's astonishing. >> now, the average household food stamp or s.n.a.p. assistance is $287. 75% of those households include a child, a disabled person, or someone older than 60. so we're talking about people who are either elderly, disabled, or children in large part that would be affected by these cuts. >> that's absolutely right. and so just thinking on an annual basis, a family of three that has no other income, $6,000, a third of the poverty line. this is the basic safety net we have in this country. particularly after w...