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John Fetterman: “42 million SNAP [recipients]... left with no health care.”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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'Noem has to go': Sen. Fetterman

Published | Video Starts at 03:05

… shut our government down, whatever the reason is like last year and now they shut down and put our America through 40, 45 days and people really suffered including SNAP. 42 million SNAP [recipients]... left with no health care. No. We really came away empty handed and now putting through that. So I think shutting our government down is fundamentally wrong. All of those changes are entirely appropriate for ice. (03:05–03:13)

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