WATCH: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee declares Trump’s budget cuts are “slavery” because minorities will be encouraged to work!
Sometimes I look at these elected officials and I think ‘how on earth did this person ever get elected?’ Sheila Jackson Lee is one of those people that makes me question our entire voting process.
Case in point, during a House Budget Committee hearing Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee suggested President Trump’s new budget proposal was like “slavery.”
Sheila Jackson Lee invokes slavery while trying to lie about Trump’s budget ?
Insane…
Russell Vought in response: “Congresswoman that is ridiculous”
That is way beyond ridiculous, these people at batshit crazy!
— Mr. Jones™️?? (@MrJones_tm) February 12, 2020
Trump’s program encourages minorities and “immigrants” to choose work over government benefits – and somehow that’s “slavery” to Jackson Lee.
Lee lamented that this spring alone “over 700,00 people will likely lose food assistance, as states begin to implement the Trump administration’s expanded SNAP time limit.” She went on to try and explain how getting people off of government assistance and helping them get back to work is somehow linked to slavery. – READ MORE