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Karoline Leavitt: “There will not be enough funds to provide SNAP benefits for…”

Featuring: Karoline Leavitt, Republican | White House Press Secretary | National

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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Oct. 23, 2025

Published | Video Starts at 40:35

Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as snap, which provides food benefits to low income families, is beginning to lapse this week in some states. If Democrats continue to hold Americans hostage, There will not be enough funds to provide SNAP benefits for more than 40 million Americans on November 1st. that is next week. Democrats are solely responsible for all of this unnecessary pain. Why are they doing it? To give taxpayer funded health care benefits to illegal aliens, some of whom are violent criminals. (40:35–40:41)

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Asserts that SNAP benefits for over 40 million Americans will be unfunded by November 1st if the shutdown continues.

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