WASHINGTON – Today, House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (D-MN-02) released the following statement after voting against the House Republican budget resolution that betrayed the middle class by deeply cutting Medicaid and SNAP to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and large corporations.

“Today, House Republicans voted to increase the national debt, cut health care for children, gut nursing home care for seniors, take food away from struggling families and screw over the middle class – all to lower taxes for billionaire campaign donors and Wall Street bankers. Cutting $230 billion from SNAP hurts the farmers who grow our food, the truckers who haul it, the manufacturers that produce its packaging and the grocery stores that sell it. These cuts endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs along a food supply chain that starts in rural America and ends at dinner tables in every community across the country. This betrayal of hardworking Americans will hurt the economy and threatens the farm bill coalition necessary to pass a bipartisan farm bill.”

Ranking Member Craig spoke out against the budget resolution before the vote. Watch the video here or below.