Thank you so much for being here. And I just mentioned, I mean, this news about the Trump administration asking the Supreme Court to basically pull back and make it so that they don't have to pay SNAP benefits. To be clear to everybody, we talked about this a lot on the show, they have the money and contingency funds to do it.They could take steps to reopen the government. Why are they doing this. Well, because they want to have max amount of pressure so that way the Republicans get what they want, which is ...

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