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Maura Healey: “That puts over 1 million, 1.1 million people in…”

Featuring: Maura Healey, Democratic | Governor of Massachusetts

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Governor Healey Provides SNAP and Health Care Updates

Published | Video Starts at 02:12

As a reminder, President Trump made an unprecedented decision to not fund SNAP benefits during a federal shutdown. He's the only president in history to basically decide to starve Americans and not fund SNAP during a federal shutdown That puts over 1 million, 1.1 million people in Massachusetts at risk. We took the Trump administration to court, and we won. I'm grateful to Attorney General Campbell for her team's work on that. (02:12–02:17)

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Asserts that 1.1 million people in Massachusetts were at risk due to the SNAP funding decision.

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