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SNAP Food Assistance Lapses in Schumer Shutdown
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The Schumer Shutdown is officially the longest federal government shutdown in history. Democrats continue to dig in their heels with their demands that Republicans and the President reinstate federal benefits for illegals and other misuses of taxpayer dollars. The recent Democrat wins in Tuesday’s elections in various states have given them a second wind. Federal workers, military personnel, and air traffic controllers are either furloughed or working without pay. On top of this mess, the funding for the SNAP program ran out at the beginning of this month — a program that Democrats created and have supported for decades. SNAP, which is not without corruption, has now become a political pawn or as House Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts it, “leverage” in the shutdown fight, at the expense of millions of Americans.
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