There are billions of dollars sitting that are available to today for SNAP benefits and we need the federal government to decide to move forward with them. So really, This particular SNAP crisis is not about the shutdown. We are all rooting for the shutdown to end. But SNAP is a created crisis that we have not had in past shutdowns. What can local representatives or local politicians do to fix that? (00:33–00:38)
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Asserts that the SNAP crisis is unrelated to the government shutdown.
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