Proposal for a Shared SNAP, Medicaid and Public Housing Database

Every single person who wanted to enroll in SNAP or enroll in Medicaid

or enroll in public housing was in a shared database that the

federal government had access to, to verify age,

citizenship, criminal record, other basic

biographic facts. That single step alone would

save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.

And you have to ask yourself, why would any politician

oppose something so fundamental?

We're not even debating eligibility rules, an important but separate debate.

We are debating whether or not a person is lying to the government

to extract funds for which they are plainly and clearly ineligible.

The time has come to implement these reforms. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.