President Trump visited Capitol Hill to rally support for a controversial Republican reconciliation package that includes significant cuts to food assistance programs.
When questioned by a reporter about how he could justify cutting food assistance while having campaigned on lowering grocery prices, Trump offered a perplexing response. “Let me just tell you, the cut is going to give everybody much more food because prices are coming way down. Groceries are down,” the president stated in the congressional hallway after meeting with the GOP conference.
