|
Lying Gabe Evans is at it again.
This time, Evans is getting called out for implying during a recent interview that a local food bank told him it supports Big, Ugly Bill’s drastic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance – after representatives explicitly told him it does not.
A spokesperson for the Weld Food Bank has since come out and said representatives “made it clear” to Evans during a meeting that his extreme budget would hurt Coloradans before Evans voted for the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history:
“[We] communicated the intense need we are seeing as well as emphasized how the need will get worse should the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid go through… These cuts that have been passed will make the line longer, not shorter.” – Spokesperson for the Weld Food Bank
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Gabe Evans can’t help but lie about his deeply unpopular, toxic agenda to rip health care and food assistance away from Coloradans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Fact checkers, community leaders, and even Evans’ own family have called him out for his blatant dishonesty. Voters will hold Evans accountable for his lies in 2026.”
In case you missed it…
Colorado Times Recorder: Food Bank Warned Gabe Evans: ‘Need Will Get Worse’ if Trump’s Budget Bill Passed
- A spokesman for the Weld Food Bank says they made it clear to Congressman Gabe Evans (R-CO) that the Medicaid and SNAP food aid cuts in the budget he supported will make their lines longer, not shorter.
- In an interview last week… Colorado Public Radio’s Bente Birkeland shared the concerns of one employee who said she doesn’t feel like the food bank will be able to deliver for working families in Weld County the way they want to and the way the community needs them to.
- “So I sat down and had this exact same conversation with the Weld County Food Bank,” Evans told CPR. “And you know what they told me? They said, ‘Gabe, we need to cut down,’ and the line he was referring to was the line of folks that were coming to the food bank. He said, ‘We need to cut down on the line.’ And the way you cut down on the line of folks that are relying on the food bank is you fix the economy.”
- Evans went on to… repeat his assertion that the Weld Food Bank wanted to return to serving fewer clients, as they did prior to the pandemic.
- “Our meeting with Rep. Evans was strictly informational,” said [a spokesman for the Weld Food Bank]. “We communicated the intense need we are seeing as well as emphasized how the need will get worse should the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid go through… These cuts that have been passed will make the line longer, not shorter.”
- Now, with the budget bill signed into law, the Weld Food Bank has started planning for the longer lines of hungry families they know will need their help. The anticipated price tag is in the millions.
|
