House GOP's 'Erode the American Dream Team'

February 25, 2016

Today, Speaker Ryan announced the members of a new GOP task force on poverty. When you look at the record, the Speaker couldn't have picked a better group of men to showcase the House Republican attitude toward families in need.

Speaker Ryan's "Erode the American Dream Team"
Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX):
Launched a cruel gambit that used poor families as political pawns – threatening unprecedented, across-the-board cuts to SNAP benefits for millions of impoverished Americans.
Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA):
The architect behind House Republicans' 2015 budget – a document that, if enacted, would have devastated food stamps, Pell Grants, Head Start and the entire social safety net, "driving millions of people into poverty and denying or weakening health coverage for tens of millions more."
Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN):
Supports and promotes Republican budgets that slash opportunity for low-income young people by cutting mandatory funding for Pell Grants and freezing Pell Grant award levels.
Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX):
Loyal foot-soldiers in the long GOP campaign to privatize Social Security, end Medicare as we know it, take away health coverage from hard-working Americans, and drastically weaken the longstanding, successful initiatives that lift up America's poorest families.
The Speaker has assembled a dream team of House Republicans who have fought throughout their careers to enact policies that target the most vulnerable Americans. Yet somehow, the American people are supposed to believe this group will take the lead on tackling poverty. These are just the choices you'd expect from Speaker Ryan – the primary author of the Republican roadmap to empowering special interests on the backs of poor and working families.

House GOP's 'Erode the American Dream Team'

Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX): Launched a cruel gambit that used poor families as political pawns – threatening unprecedented, across-the-board cuts to SNAP benefits for millions of impoverished Americans.

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN): Supports and promotes Republican budgets that slash opportunity for low-income young people by cutting mandatory funding for Pell Grants and freezing Pell Grant award levels.

Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX):
Launched a cruel gambit that used poor families as political pawns – threatening unprecedented, across-the-board cuts to SNAP benefits for millions of impoverished Americans.

Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN):
Supports and promotes Republican budgets that slash opportunity for low-income young people by cutting mandatory funding for Pell Grants and freezing Pell Grant award levels.