On 2/27/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Karine, on the boosted SNAP benefits that are going to expire this week, what’s the administration’s message to the Americans who are going to really feel the brunt of this once these expire?
KJP: So, as you know, Karen, Con- — as you just mentioned, Congress made the decision back in December to allow pandemic-era benefits to expire next month … as a reminder, USDA updated the Thirty Food Plan, resulting in SNAP benefits increasing by an average of $36.30 per person per month, beginning October 2021. This SNAP benefit increase lifted — increase lifted an estimate 2.3 million people out of poverty, including nearly 1 million children, with an average of — with, I should say, an even greater impact on children of color
Karine, on the boosted SNAP benefits that are going to expire this week, what’s the administration’s message to the Americans who are going to really feel the brunt of this once these expire?
KJP: So, as you know, Karen, Con- — as you just mentioned, Congress made the decision back in December to allow pandemic-era benefits to expire next month … as a reminder, USDA updated the Thirty Food Plan, resulting in SNAP benefits increasing by an average of $36.30 per person per month, beginning October 2021. This SNAP benefit increase lifted — increase lifted an estimate 2.3 million people out of poverty, including nearly 1 million children, with an average of — with, I should say, an even greater impact on children of color
On 2/27/2023, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “more broadly than Dr. Fauci though, I guess what I’m getting at is: There was, not so long ago, a point where anyone asking the question of whether a lab leak was a credible theory which should be looked into — you know, a lot of those people were derided as “fringe,” you know, “conspiracy theorists.” So are there lessons learned, you know, looking back, about how we discuss theories when we don’t have all the answers?
KJP: So, what — here’s what I can tell you is — the President’s commitment to getting to the bottom of this. Right? That is what is the most important …
On 3/1/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Let me follow up on a separate question that was asked by one of my colleagues in the room about the student loans and the wait for the decision from the Supreme Court as it relates to this. I know that you said earlier that there is no other plan. The plan right now is the one that’s being presented before the Supreme Court and you feel strongly in your case. Obviously, those who have loans that they would owe, in case this is rejected, don’t have that same ability. They have to have a backup plan in case. I know that two months would pass before they would have to pay those loans again, in case the Supreme Court rejects this here. But what do you say to those Americans who have tens of thousands of dollars that they might be responsible for two months after the Court makes its decision, if they choose reject it? How should they be preparing right now for that? And what would you do to protect them?
KJP: And I’ll just add that, yesterday, right in front of the Supreme Court, you saw many of those Americans speaking out loud —
Reporter: We did.
KJP: — and clear, and saying how important the President’s plan is to them. Because they’re being crushed, right?
Reporter: But what’s the — what should be —
KJP: No —
Reporter: — the plan B?
KJP: Well —
Reporter: Because everybody who has their own budget at home has to have a plan B.
KJP: I totally — I — I hear you, Peter. And you asked me what the message was to the American people. You heard — I just laid out … look, we do not — we do not — again, we do not have another plan. This is our plan. This is it … We believe that we have the legal authority. That’s why we took it to the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court.
Reporter: Just to be clear, though: So you don’t have another plan? Which is to say for those other — and you have those individuals’ backs, which is to say, if this is rejected though, there isn’t anything in the works right now —
KJP: What —
Reporter: — by this administration to have their —
KJP: What I’m saying to you, Peter
Reporter: — back going forward? They would be
KJP: What I’m saying — what I’m saying to you, Peter, is: This is our plan. It is a good plan because how it helps Americans across the country, especially working Americans, middle-class Americans. So this is our plan. And you heard it. You heard it. The reason I mentioned the folks that were in front
Reporter: I get it. I’m just asking on behalf of
KJP: — of the Supreme Court.
Reporter: — those folks that have tens of thousands they owe. What should they do?
KJP: (Laughs.)
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