Ayanna Pressley: “SNAP, our nation's critical food assistance program, could…”

“This is not about a deficit of resource, this is a deficit of empathy, as my teenage daughter would say, period. SNAP, our nation's critical food assistance program, could lose funding as early as next week. This is the same program that feeds more than 42 million people in America. That includes 16 million children, 4 million people with disabilities and 1 million veterans.” (14:46–14:52)

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