Sen. Johnson says too many people are on food benefits

WASHINGTON, D.C (WRN) — Senator Ron Johnson says too many people are on food benefits.

Appearing on Newsmax on Friday, the Wisconsin Republican blamed Democrats for expanding the SNAP program.

“Obama came in dramatically increased eligibility. Now it’s between 10 and 15%, and now you have 42 million Americans, 12 and 12.3% of our population on food stamps, that is not a metric of success. It’s a metric of failure,” Johnson said.

Johnson also claimed the Affordable Care Act is pushing disabled children off of health care, because healthy Americans are now also required to also carry health insurance. He said doctors would rather see those healthy patients.