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Ayanna Pressley: “For the first time in history, an administration could fail…”

Featuring: Ayanna Pressley, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 7th Congressional District

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Senator Markey Hosts Press Conference at Project Bread In Boston with Rep. Pressley to Protect SNAP

Published | Video Starts at 13:42

This is policy violence. It is violent. And this is the part that gets me 100% preventable. Our families are now staring down a November 1 cliff with when For the first time in history, an administration could fail to fund the SNAP program. Let me say this. I've been in Congress seven years. I was the first congressional class to be onboarded in the midst of a federal government shutdown. (13:42–13:48)

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Asserts that the current administration might not fund the SNAP program, which would be unprecedented.

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