Bernie Sanders: “They [the Trump administration] are going to withhold that…”

“And, and now, on top of all of that, what the Trump administration is doing is saying, despite the fact that there is an emergency fund available for $6 billion to continue, SNAP funding, food stamp funding, WIC funding, et cetera, They [the Trump administration] are going to withhold that money and allow children in this country to go hungry, which is not only obscene, happens to be illegal. That's what this shutdown is about.” (01:08–01:20)

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