they re relying on this. it seems like eric s real name should be ebenezer. what i mean by this, when people come to you from the conservative side and yell to you, do you get people complaining about food stamps? no. in michigan where we ve had people that never thought in their wildest dreams they d need food help. they paid taxes all their lives, they re mortified they need help. but they need a bit of help. the new folks coming onto food assistance are on for ten months or less. so it s temporary help. and here s the other good news. we actually are reducing the number of people on food assistance the right way. the congressional budget office says 14 million people fewer people will be on food assistance over the next ten years than there are now because of jobs. it s real simple. more jobs right. we ve had a tough year. exactly.
our veterans. and so we re talking about 85% being in that category and of the other 15%, those are folks trying to piece it together it s not exactly a bragging right either when you go in the store and use food stamps. people are hard up, in bad shape, they may have lost their job, lost their home. they re relying on this. it seems like eric s real name should be ebenezer. what i mean by this, when people come to you from the conservative side and yell to you, do you get people complaining about food stamps? no. in michigan where we ve had people that never thought in their wildest dreams they d need food help. they paid taxes all their lives, they re mortified they need help. but they need a bit of help. the new folks coming onto food assistance are on for ten months or less. so it s temporary help. and here s the other good news.
luke. we said we want integrity. we want to aggressively tackle fraud and abuse and we did. we saved about 4 billion going after things like lottery winners who were actually getting food assistance and things that made no sense and the states doing to misuse programs but we kept intact food help for people that need it. people in michigan that lost their job because of a plant closing paid their taxes the whole life and mortified they need food help but they do and most people get help less than ten months and critical to feed their family so we want people who need help to get help in the house. they went much too far and they re going to be hurting people. part of the rhetoric and what chairman lucas said is moved a bill forward through the house that not a lot of conservatives were okay with, with the hope to get through the senate. knowing how conservative the house gop is, if this is the
crisis. this crisis is just around the door,7o2y but could be prevente. martha: it is fascinating to watch this you talk about how it is your third trip. different in so many ways than any of our other trips. how does it feel different to you? greta: you can t forget, we are still technically at war with this country. there s a cease-fire from 1953 but a lot of distrust. because it is our third trip, they trust us more and willing to give us more access. at least in pyongyang, the city, you see more cars on the road. a little more vibrant. farther north, you could tell this is going to be a very bad summer, if they don t get the food help they need. martha: how optimistic are they about getting help and the work that franklin graham is doing to see that kind of
crisis. this crisis is just around the door,7o2y but could be prevente. martha: it is fascinating to watch this you talk about how it is your third trip. different in so many ways than any of our other trips. how does it feel different to you? greta: you can t forget, we are still technically at war with this country. there s a cease-fire from 1953 but a lot of distrust. because it is our third trip, they trust us more and willing to give us more access. at least in pyongyang, the city, you see more cars on the road. a little more vibrant. farther north, you could tell this is going to be a very bad summer, if they don t get the food help they need. martha: how optimistic are they about getting help and the work that franklin graham is doing to see that kind of