What about the air traffic controllers? What about the TSA agents? What about the American troops? What about our border patrol agents? What about the people who work in this building? What about the 40 million Americans that are not going to get snap benefits starting on Saturday if the government doesn't open up? But every day gets better, according to Senator Schumer. Then of course, this last week there was the House Democrat whip who said, of course there will be families that are going to suffer, but it is one of the few leveraged times we have. (03:44–03:51)
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Asserts that 40 million Americans will not receive SNAP benefits if the government remains shut down.
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