Number of the Day

$33.2 billion: The amount of proposed cuts by House Republicans to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next ten years, because the GOP would literally see poor people starve in order to subsidize tax breaks for millionaires.

"Let them eat bootstraps!"—The GOP.

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