Rosa DeLauro: “$6 billion in a contingency fund, which we voted for.”

“It is a lie, it is misinformation that we have to reopen the government in order for there to be SNAP benefits to go to families. $6 billion in a contingency fund, which we voted for. Read the bill, understand what you did in the bill and know what you did. You passed it. And it was the President who decided he did not want to spend that money to feed people.” (16:41–16:46)

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