Mike Johnson gives away the Republican game on SNAP and the shutdown
MSNBCยท2025-10-31 04:12
Congress has set aside a specific fund for programs like SNAP for emergencies. And as the judge put it in federal court today, quote, "It's hard for me to understand that this is not an emergency when there's no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits." I think it's really important to be clear about what Republicans were trying to do here. They were jinning up excuses to actively force 42 million Americans to lose their SNAP benefits when they didn't have to.They were choosing to take foo ...