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Mike Johnson: “The WIC funding for Women, Infants and Children and SNAP…”

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 35 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 37:08

The White House has bent over backwards as we've recounted here every morning to make sure that Americans pain is mitigated as much as possible, reduced as much as possible so we can. You got the troops paid. They made creative solutions for that. The WIC funding for Women, Infants and Children and SNAP came to a legal crossroads because the legal analysis said that you could not use the contingency fund if the underlying fund was not flowing. I've explained that into detail here multiple times. Two courts disagreed. So what did the President do in good faith showing again that he's willing to bend over backwards to help the American people when Democrats are not. (37:08–37:20)

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Asserts that legal analysis prevented the use of contingency funds for WIC and SNAP due to funding issues.

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