'You're just lying!' Dem smacks down MTG for calling kids on school lunches 'garbage'

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) shouted down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and accused her of referring to children in the school lunch program as "garbage."

At a Wednesday House Oversight Committee hearing on tax cuts, Stansbury offered an amendment to prevent the Trump administration from cutting benefits, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food assistance programs.

"I would hope that my friends across the aisle, of course, I doubt they will, would support this amendment," Stansbury said. "We know that over 150,000 New Mexicans, especially our elders, our seniors, and our low-income families, would lose access to food assistance, whether that's SNAP assistance to buy groceries or whether that's school lunches if these cuts go through."

A moment later, Greene complained about Stansbury's amendment.

"This is a budget process," Greene explained. "And so for the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are sitting here trying to score points and spread more lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to spread more garbage across the country."

"And I just wanted to point that out for the people watching at home so they are not swayed by this entertainment today," the Georgia Republican added.

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Stansbury fired back at Greene for using "the word garbage to refer to our fight to protect your Social Security."

"I am so sorry, but seniors, veterans, children whose parents have died, kids on school lunches are not garbage!" she exclaimed. "The American people are asking us to fight for them and the fight for their rights, for the funding that keeps them alive, the fight to help the people of this country is not garbage."

"And the entire argument that's being put forward here today, that cutting a few little pieces here and there and decimating the federal workforce and these programs is somehow going to save the deficit, is literally a bold-faced lie," Stansbury continued. "The CBO says it is going to raise the debt by five trillion dollars."

"So if you're going to sit here and say it's not going to raise the debt, you're just lying."

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