Rep. Brandon Gill DESTROYS Liberal “Anti-Hunger” Advocate During SNAP Abuse Hearing,

WATCH: Rep. Brandon Gill DESTROYS Liberal “Anti-Hunger” Advocate During SNAP Abuse Hearing, Leaves Her Spinning After Asking if SNAP Should be Spent on Sugary Soda​

During a House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing titled “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in SNAP,” the Texas Republican asked one simple question: “Should SNAP dollars be spent on sodas?”

Plata-Nino is the Director of SNAP Policy and Advocacy at the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), a so-called “anti-hunger” advocacy organization, and she couldn’t even answer the question.
After initially refusing to, in her words, “dictate what Americans should or should not eat or may have access to,” the free food and soda advocate suggested that people need soda “to survive.” When asked to clarify, she said “some of them do,” claiming that people with low blood sugar or kidney issues need to drink soda.

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Asked if sugary sodas have nutritional benefits, she claimed, “I am not an expert. I would have to look at the dietary guidelines.” Gill responded, “I don’t think that there’s nutritional value to sugary sodas. I think most people in this room would agree with that assessment. But you have no opinion?” But she refused to answer, stating, “I’m here to talk about the food needs and the hunger crisis that individuals here in America are facing.” She even went on to claim that there’s “no data proving” that soda does not make the American people healthier, after Gill ripped her for being “so ideologically dug in” that she can’t answer a simple question about soda’s nutritional value.