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Lawmaker urges colleagues to protect hungry children, accuses president of using hunger as a political weapon
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Summary
A lawmaker accused the president of "using hunger as a political weapon," appealed to Republican colleagues to exempt children and hungry Americans from partisan brinkmanship, and urged lawmakers to resolve disputes through standard appropriations negotiations rather than by harming vulnerable people.
A lawmaker said that "the president of The United States is going out of his way to make sure that people don't have enough to eat," and accused the president of "using hunger as a political weapon." The speaker urged fellow Republicans to "leave the kids harmless" and to "leave the hungry harmless," calling for bipartisan restraint.
The lawmaker framed the dispute as tied to the appropriations process and "this Affordable Care Act subsidy question," and urged colleagues to "convene and then wrangle and argue and shout at each other a little bit and then reconvene and then cut the deal," describing that sequence as how the country is "supposed to work." The speaker said the political process should resolve differences rather than inflicting harm on vulnerable people.
The lawmaker warned of precedent, saying there is "a long and pretty dark history, an evil history of politicians...using food as a means of political control," and argued that the United States should not follow that path. The remarks repeatedly called for holding hungry Americans "harmless."
No motions, votes, or formal policy actions appear in the provided transcript; the remarks are presented as commentary and an appeal to colleagues rather than a proposal for immediate legislative action.
