Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said when inflation put the squeeze on his family he popped a can of Chef Boyardee – and declared “that’s what families have to do.
The House Dems campaign fundraising chief, who is also a five-term incumbent representing the Hudson Valley, gave a glowing endorsement Saturday for Beefaroni and other Chef Boyardee canned pasta products when asked about his plans “to fight inflation.”
“Well, I grew up in a family where if the gas price went up, the food price went down, so by this time of the week we’d be eating Chef Boyardee if that budget wasn’t gonna change,” Maloney told Halston Media’s owner Brett Freeman in an interview. “So that’s what families have to do.”
He then listed government actions to try to curb inflation, such as capping seniors’ out-of-pocket Medicare expenses and negotiating to lower prescription costs.
