We made cuts totalling about $26 billion in food nutrition programs. food stamp programs. We do not restore any of that by way of a blueprint in this budget agreement. Then we made cuts in benefits for legal immigrants. Now. my colleague from New Jersey expressed some of his dismay about what is going on in the House side. in the House Ways and Means Committee. And I am quite in agreement with him. But I also just want to say I guess it is how you look at what is progress. The fact we restored some benefits for legal immigrants who are elderly and disabled. that is a good thing. And the fact that we restored some benefits for children. that is a good thing. But the fact of the matter is. if you are elderly. if you are 80 years old and you are not disabled. you are just old and poor. you are elderly and poor. your benefits were not restored in the budget agreement.
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