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Mike Johnson: “It costs over $9 billion to fund SNAP for a month, and we…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson and House GOP Leadership Give Remarks on Day 34 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 22:52

So you have two courts, two liberal courts, Obama judges, as I understand it, who said, no, that's not right. Get them paid. Well, it's more complicated than that because as you know, It costs over $9 billion to fund SNAP for a month, and we only have, I think it's $5.2 billion in the contingency fund. So you have a big shortfall. So it's not as easy as hitting go send on a computer. You got to go through and recalculate partial payments to the 42 million recipients of the program. (22:52–23:02)

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Asserts that SNAP requires over $9 billion monthly, but only $5.2 billion is available in the contingency fund.

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