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We're looking at putting work requirements on able-bodied healthy adults without children for Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which will save over $135 billion and could help address the (current) labor shortage. We're also looking at repealing $80 billion to the IRS because it's very, very nerve-wracking to think this increased Internal Revenue Service funding will result in more than 650,000 additional audits of people making less than $75,000 a year.

— Southeast Missouri U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, in remarks about the debt ceiling bill, "Limit, Save & Grow Act", made following a meeting with restaurateurs April 24 in Cape Girardeau on April 24.

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