Matt Walsh: “I would much prefer that everybody in this category, which is adults without young children who are not elderly or disabled -- I'd prefer that everyone just be disqualified from food stamps outright”
Walsh: “And I don't even think you need to wind it down”
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From the February 2, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So now if you're between the ages of 18 and 64 with the new requirements added to the previous requirements, if you're 18 and 64, so an adult below retirement age, and you don't have children under the age of 14, then you need to work for 20 hours a week to qualify for food stamps.
Otherwise, it says you can have food stamps, but only for three months in a three year period, so it's like a cushion that -- and then you got to get back on your feet. These are not only reasonable requirements, but so minimal and so basic that they barely even count as requirements. And yet the Congressional Budget Office estimates that these bare minimum requirements will disqualify millions of people. You know, because millions of people are on the dole, bilking the system, taking money out of your pocket while making no attempt to care for themselves and not even putting in the bare minimum of effort. Like, needless to say, if you're an able-bodied adult, there is no valid reason why you can't work at least a part-time job. Like, there's no reason why you can't go out and get and then work at least a part-time job, but really a full-time job, especially if you don't have young children at home. No young children at home, you're able-bodied, you're an adult below retirement age, you should be able to work. That's it.
Now I'm happy these requirements are going to place. I would much prefer that everybody in this category, which is adults without young children who are not elderly or disabled -- I'd prefer that everyone just be disqualified from food stamps outright. I think that'd be perfectly fair. And I don't even think you need to wind it down. If we're up to me, I wouldn't even wind it down for somebody like Kenny. I would just say you're out. Like, you're out. Go get a job, man. Like, what are you doing? Oh, there are barriers. What what barriers are preventing you from getting any job at all? Stop it. OK. A 16 year-old can go out there and get some kind of job. You're telling me that a 16 year-old could go out there and get some kind of job, but you can't get any as a grown ass man, as an adult in your, what, your 50s? You can't get any job? None? Come on.
And, look, I'm sure Kenny is a nice guy. I have no problem with Kenny. But this is really the question. Why should I be forced to give Penny -- to give Kenny -- to give Kenny a single penny? Why should I be forced to give Kenny a penny? Why should I? Like, to anyone who supports the SNAP program, this is kind of the question. This is really where the rubber meets the road. What moral obligation do I have to Kenny, who we just saw there? Again, probably a nice guy. What obligation do I have to him? Because that's the whole premise of entitlement. It's right there in the name, entitlements. Like, they're entitled to it. Well, entitled from who? Because it's -- the money's not coming out of nowhere. It's coming from taxpayers. So what we're being told is that they are entitled to your money. Let's if they -- so Kenny is on the food stamps. He is an entitlement. He is entitled — entitled — entitled — to your money. Entitled. You owe it to him. What? Why do you owe -- what do you owe him? Why do you owe him anything at all?