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

“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,” he continued. “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 slashing over $290 billion in federal funding from the program, which is administered by states, the House GOP proposal includes tweaks to work requirements for participants.

McGovern, after blasting Republicans for lecturing people about “fraud and waste,” stressed that programs like SNAP are in place because most Americans believe “nobody should go without basic necessities.”

He later used a hypothetical example of a recently laid-off factory worker who has been “breaking his back” for decades lifting heavy equipment that would get just 90 days to “figure it out before he goes hungry.”

“I mean, seriously, what is wrong with you people?” he said.

“And you know what? I think you guys know exactly what you’re doing. Either that or you’re just so afraid of Trump that you don’t care. But either way, this is just shameful and I find it unconscionable, unconscionable and immoral. And make no mistake, this is an immoral bill.”