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Official title: Food Stamps (Executive Session)
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July 16, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. President, last year, we passed the One Big Beautiful Bill. One of the provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill was that, in America, if you are hungry, we are going to feed you. We are going to give you food stamps. We don't want you to be hungry. But in return for those food stamps, if you are able-bodied, if you are not disabled and you don't have kids at home, you have to go get a job. You have to work 20 hours a week or go to school for 20 hours a week or do community service for 20 hours a week—a fair trade.
And it is working. The full provision of the law is not even implemented, but so far, we have had 4 million people who were on food stamps—in those States that have implemented the work requirement, we have 4 million people who have either decided they don't need food stamps because they didn't want to work or they have gone to work for a living and they no longer need food stamps.
Now, those are the only two possibilities. When you say “You have to work to get food stamps,” and 4 million people say “We are off the food stamp rolls,” one of two things has happened: You either really didn't need the food stamps or you went to work and you didn't need the food stamps.
States implement the work requirement. It was long overdue. We ought to extend it to every social program in America.
from a mother with a sick child in her arms. This rule just applies to able-bodied people who aren't disabled, who aren't elderly, and who don't have kids at home. And all we require is that they work 20 hours a week or go to school for 20 hours a week and get job training or do community service. It is working.
I made it. I am done. Peace out.