Indiana lawmaker tells Fox: GOP ‘isn’t focusing on poor people’ with welfare drug tests
Indiana state Rep. Jud McMillin (R) insisted on Thursday that he was not “focusing on poor people” with a bill that would strip welfare benefits from people who failed to pass a drug test.
On a Fox & Friends segment called “Entitlement Nation,” host Brian Kilmeade noted that critics of Indiana’s drug testing bill had argued that it singled out and stereotyped the poor.
“I think it’s going to save a whole bunch of money,” McMillin told Kilmeade. “And it certainly isn’t focusing on poor people. What it focuses on is people who are using drugs.”
This claim puzzled the Fox News host.
“If you’re on welfare, usually you don’t have that much money,” he reasoned. “So it might not be wrong to label them poor people.”
“Well, it might not be wrong to label them less — you’re correct, they don’t have as much money as some other folks do,” McMillin admitted. “But just because they don’t have that money doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make sure taxpayer dollars are used efficiently when they do get it.”
“And you think it will affect between 20 and 30 thousand people?” Kilmeade pressed.
“At least,” the lawmaker replied. “But again, that’s discounting all the tangential effects you will see once you start getting people back in the workforce.”
Watch the video below from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast April 16, 2015.
Comedian DL Hughley torches Trump supporters: ‘You could worship the devil and be a better human being’
Comedian D.L Hughley said devil worshipers have stronger moral values than President Donald Trump and his supporters.
One of the comedian's listeners asked Hughley on social media whether he could be friends with a "staunch" Trump supporter, and he said "hell, no."
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GOP busted by CNN’s John Avlon for killing election security bill to ensure Trump gets re-elected
During his fact-checking segment on CNN's "New Day," contributor John Avlon blasted Senate Republicans for doing Donald Trump's bidding and killing two election security bills that could help hinder Russian interference in U.S. elections.
With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) already taking heat (and being dubbed #MoscowMitch) for shutting down the two bills, Avlon asserted that it was obvious the GOP feels the president may need help being re-elected.
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough went on an extended rant against "Moscow Mitch" McConnell for repeatedly blocking measures that would protect American democracy from Russian attacks.
The Senate majority leader blocked two election security bills twice this week, despite warnings from U.S. officials and former special counsel Robert Mueller that the Kremlin was actively engaged in efforts to interfere with the 2020 election -- and McConnell prevented the Obama administration from warning Americans about Russian meddling in 2016.
"Robert Mueller testified that not only did Russia try to interfere with our 2016 election and not only did Donald Trump's -- all of his intelligence community and Kirstjen Nielsen, when she was at Homeland Security, said Russia undermined American democracy in 2016," Scarborough said. "We remember back then the warnings came, but 'Moscow Mitch,' that being Mitch McConnell, of Moscow, Kentucky, actually blocked that and said he threatened the people that were going to try to get that information out to warn Americans."
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