Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) insisted that it was time to "start cutting" funds for food stamps because poor people should "go back to work."
During a Wednesday interview on Real America's Voice, Tuberville complained that the so-called farm bill in a House resolution to continue funding the government included $10 billion for farmers but did not cut $1.5 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.
"The problem is, I got where the farm bill is, it's gonna be $1.5 trillion, and 200 billion goes to the farmers in a five-year period, and 1.3 trillion goes to food stamps," the senator said. "Now, if we need to start cutting, and you know that DOGE group's gonna start looking at that, people gotta go back to work."
"We need to take care of the elderly, the veterans, people with mental illnesses, but everybody else gotta go back to work," he added.
However, work requirements are already part of the SNAP program. To receive SNAP benefits, non-disabled adults (age 18-54) must complete 80 hours of work or work training each month.
Real America's Voice host Steve Bannon told Tuberville that he wanted to see a limit on the types of food poor people could purchase in addition to funding cuts.
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"Now, unfortunately, it's a lot of the food I like, but it's food product, but we gotta, here's the thing," Bannon said. "There's so many hard cuts that have to happen, like you're talking about out of food stamps."
"Nobody's gonna be cheerful about cutting food stamps, but you're right, you gotta go back," he continued. "They are hard decisions about putting food on the table for people or giving access to it that have to be made, or we're just not gonna be a country anymore."