GOP lawmaker accuses Dems of trading 'Black Americans food stamps for their souls'

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) argued that ordinary people on food stamps shouldn't be able to afford "top of the line foods."

During a segment on Newsmax this week, host Rob Schmitt recalled that the Supreme Court had banned race-based college admissions.

"And now extrapolate that out to all of society when we do this everywhere," he said. "We're ending all kinds of discrimination and the toxicity that it brings. It's the end of pretending that this is a racist country as well."

"The end of a Democrat [sic] party, grift, that has decimated the soul of this country for far too long," he continued. "That's the next step of this. In our inner cities for far too long, lying, race-baiting, Democrat [sic] politicians have traded black Americans food stamps and subsidized rent for their souls."

Schmitt went on to tell Grothman that "our money will continue to buy junk food for welfare recipients in this country."

"$9 billion on SNAP funds is spent each year just on soda," he explained. "You and I pay for $9 billion worth of soda in a program that's just meant to keep people alive."

"And we all know that the food stamps are being abused," Grothman agreed. "People using food stamps for top of the line food stuffs, things that the average person wouldn't be able to buy, but the people on food stamps seem capable of buying it."

"So an effort was made, a mild effort just to say, you can't buy cigarette soft drinks, not Mountain Dew, and that sort of thing," he said of recent legislation. "And we had 55 Republicans vote to say no. We actually thought we were gonna win."

"I mean, SNAP is to keep people alive," Schmitt replied. "It's like you don't have a job. We're going to get you the food you need to just; that's what it's supposed to be."

"I feel like it should just be a food program where you get sent, you know, a box of food," Grothman complained.