House Democrat Nails Exactly Why GOP Is 'So Out Of Touch' With Americans

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Source: Huff Post

May 14, 2025, 04:12 AM EDT


Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) slammed Republicans on Tuesday for proposing major cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps an average of over 42 million Americans purchase food each month.

“Folks who paid taxes and played by the rules, expecting that their government will help them if they fall on hard times and you guys want to tell them to all go screw themselves?” he said at a House Agriculture Committee markup meeting.

“It is so out of touch it takes my breath away. You guys make Marie Antoinette look down to earth. Donald Trump’s Cabinet is like an episode of the ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.’ These people are totally clueless. They don’t shop for their own groceries, they don’t buy their own food.”

Aside from reportedly proposing to slash over $290 billion in federal funding from the program, which is administered by states, the House GOP proposal also includes tweaks to work requirements for participants. The proposal is one of the ways House Republicans look to offset tax cuts in their “big, beautiful bill” that they hope will satisfy President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-mcgovern-republicans-out-of-touch-proposed-snap-cuts_n_6824376fe4b021b5064a247c

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McGovern: You guys make Marie Antoinette look down to earth. Trump’s cabinet is like an episode of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. These people are totally clueless. They don’t shop for their own groceries. They don’t buy their own food.
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McGovern: You guys make Marie Antoinette look down to earth. Trump’s cabinet is like an episode of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. These people are totally clueless. They don’t shop for their own groceries. They don’t buy their own food.
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[Walleye]

1. McGovern is the voice of reason.

These assholes don’t know that Joe and Joe Biden shop at the local grocery store and the coffee shop. I have seen them they assume that he’s a rich bastard too. He’s not.

[Ponietz]

2. 90 million people didn't vote in 2024

The Leopards Eat Faces Party is feasting on nonvoters and can’t survive without them.

I reconsidered my frustration with Schumer. When Schumer says it will take time to show the contrast he’s talking about non voters realizing there is a contrast.

There’s a catch-22 in Democratic ideology. We advocate for everyone, even large blocs that don’t vote. We’ve had to move to the center to survive, but that will change if and when non voters get motivated — unless it turns out to be too late.

[sheshe2]

3. Good post, Ponietz.

The number of non-voters is staggering.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Could some non-voters have been kicked off the voting rolls by the rethugs?

Disenfranchising Democratic voters is one of their many tactics for cheating in elections.

It certainly doesn't excuse the vast majority of non-voters, but this might account for a small percentage.

[sheshe2]

7. Yes, some, however nowhere near the numbers we are seeing.

*sigh*

[Quanto Magnus]

12. I know several non-voters

They could vote (they say as much), but they don't.

I think this time around, many didn't vote due to the Israel/Gaza conflict. I know a few from this camp as well.

[IbogaProject]

6. How about real progressive policies instead?

Centrist means making nice with the GOP, how about "A chicken in every pot"? Getting more money into more peoples hands will grow the economy and get our health insurance nationalized already, it is projected to save money even during the initial transition year.

[sheshe2]

4. Jim McGovern is spot on.

[artemisia1]

8. No, the GOP has risen to its current level of power by being IN TOUCH with the basest elements in American Culture, by

catering to covetousness, resentment, malice and anger.

[usonian]

9. The GOP know what buttons to push. Morans vote against their own best interests.

[ananda]

10. They played the divide and conquer game and won bigly.

They got the bigoted people in the poor and working classes
to vote against their own best interests, many of them in
the mindset of rugged individualism and social darwinism.

Thats where we are now.

However, what the greedy, rich, and predatory GOPers don't
realize is that their lives will also be upended and will change
much for the worse as long as their lust for greed and power
continues.

They are not immune to diseases, are subject to climate change
like everyone else, and are completely ignorant of how to live
in a human society.

[surfered]

11. It might help to inform the GOP politicians that more white people receive SNAP benefits than any other race.

Just saying…

[republianmushroom]

13. Out of touch ? Who won the last election,

those supposedly in touch or those out of touch ?

[Skittles]

14. it certainly isn't "crhistian" or "pro-life"

no INDEED

repukes seem to have it in for ANYONE who needs assistance