John Hickenlooper: “42 million people were being held hostage. They're being…”

“Well, we did not get our key demand. We got a bunch of other things in there. 42 million people were being held hostage. They're being threatened with hunger, even with starvation because the SNAP program. SNAP program, no matter what the court said, he was going to go back and fight it and tie it up forever. And that's what people are trying to eat.” (00:45–01:01)

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