During the last shutdown in 2019, it was the first Trump administration, and they made sure that in the second month of the shutdown, SNAP benefits would go out. They had them sent early. Why do you think they shouldn't do This. Well, The President, this administration has done exactly what he did in the first term, and that is bend over backwards to make sure that we mitigate the harm. We explained here yesterday that any administration in a shutdown scenario has figuratively a control panel of pain dials in The Obama administration, 2013, when they shut it down. (32:24–32:32)
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Asserts that the current administration is working to mitigate harm during the shutdown.
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