you see firsthand the need. Speak appropriately to the need out there as a consequence of what this administration is doing and what will happen to folks at midnight tonight. >> Yeah.Well, first of all, thank you for having me uh to talk about such an important thing. I mean, the impact that Head Start has had on millions of Americans over the last 60 years um is is so powerful as you noted. Um, and I I think it's important to acknowledge this is this is it's easy to say sit here and say we need to put the ...

We are following several developing stories, including the government shutdown fight as we're just hours away from hitting another critical and potentially devastating inflection point with Americans grappling with questions about whether they will be able to afford their basic needs, including food and health care. Starting tomorrow, the US Department of Agriculture says SNAP benefits, previously known as food stamps, will run dry, leaving some 42 million people, or about 1 in eight Americans, facing conce ...

Welcome back. The government shutdown now in its 31st day and millions of Americans are set to lose SNAP benefits tomorrow. That's a supplemental nutrition assistance program.Our Emily Wilkins has the details. Hi Emily. Hey Courtney.Well, yeah, 42 million Americans currently get benefits through SNAP and depending on what state they're in, they could all completely go away tomorrow. Some states say they could hold on for a bit. But what's really interesting here is that from everything we've seen for the sh ...

What did you hear from him. Just about the path forward here at a time when it seems like there is no easy exit ramp from this government shutdown. Actually, there is a very easy exit on this, and that is just for our Democratic colleagues to do what they did 13 times during Joe Biden's administration. And they have refused to do 13 times for President Trump's administration, and that is pass a clean continuing resolution or C.R. This is exactly based on the appropriations product that Joe Biden put in plac ...

Let's begin with MSNBC senior Capitol Hill reporter and host of Way Too Early, Ali Vatitali. Also with us, MSNBC's Ariel Hixon live from Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport, and Eli Stokel's White House and foreign affairs correspondent at Politico. So Ally, the vice president is about to head there to Capitol Hill to meet with those Republican senators.What kind of environment is he walking into. It's going to be a busy day here on Capitol Hill that's likely to end us in the same place that we've en ...

It is a rather devastating indictment and snapshot of life in Donald Trump's America as a government shutdown and Donald Trump's policies put additional financial pressure on Americans already stretched too thin. and for those who voted for Trump promised lower costing groceries among other things. The USDA has announced that come Saturday, the 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it's often referred to as SNAP, will be forced to go without benefits that'll run out ...