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KLOBUCHAR: "I was very disappointed in that, putting it mildly. I think the people that are really going to be disappointed are the veterans, as we go into 4th of July tomorrow. We’re going to have their SNAP benefits either eliminated or reduced. I think the people that are going to be really upset are the people who are going to be thrown off their health care. That’s 17 million people. And the worst of the whole thing is that a number of the changes that were made to help Alaska actually dragged in a whole bunch of bad stuff. And my favorite example is on SNAP. It’s $200 billion in cuts for food assistance. And as Torres just described, Congressman Torres, the majority of these people seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, kids, well, this is going to really hit in rural. And one of the things they did to help Alaska was say that states with the highest error rates with SNAP, because Alaska is the highest, and they couldn’t get that by the parliamentarian to just single out Alaska. They tried Alaska and Hawaii, they tried Alaska and D.C.. and they finally ended up with the ten states with the biggest error rates.”