| Gabe Evans couldn’t care less about answering Coloradans’ questions.
Evans, who refuses to hold public town halls, is under fire this week for “dodg[ing] questions” from 9NEWS about his vote to gut SNAP, a food assistance program that 90,000 of his constituents rely on.
When asked how many of his constituents could go hungry, Evans hid behind Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins before bumbling through an irrelevant non-answer. Evans refused to answer a similar question last year, when he was asked how many of his constituents could lose their health care after he voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Gabe Evans sold Coloradans out when he voted to gut their health care and rip food off their tables to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Voters will hold Evans accountable this November.”
See the reporting for yourself…
9 News: After voting for SNAP benefit changes, does Rep. Gabe Evans know how many in his district will lose food assistance?
- About 90,000 people in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District receive SNAP benefits.
- Evans declined multiple times to say how many people in his district could lose food assistance benefits.
- “Congressman, you voted to make it harder for families to receive SNAP benefits, and those changes take effect in less than two months. There are about 90,000 people in your Congressional District who receive SNAP benefits. How many do you think, or do you expect to lose these food benefits? And why is that a positive for taxpayers?” Zelinger asked.
- The question to Evans was about how many in his district could lose benefits over those changes. Evans instead cited Colorado’s SNAP error rate, which measures overpayments and underpayments to recipients.
- “How does taking people off Medicaid and into emergency rooms for uncompensated care help medical providers in your district?” Zelinger asked.
- Being able to ask those questions, though, is more than many of his constituents can claim.
- Evans has held telephone town halls, but nothing in person.
- “What should your constituents take that you meet with allies in the Trump administration, like Secretary Rollins and Secretary [Markwayne] Mullin last week, [from the Department of Homeland Security], but you’ve yet to have this general in public town hall for anyone to show up in your district?” Zelinger asked.
- 9NEWS has not been able to find a record of an in-person town hall open to the general public.
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