Shontel Brown: “The president and the agency of the USDA illegally withheld…”

“And I don't have to remind you that those resources were available during the shutdown, and The president and the agency of the USDA illegally withheld those [SNAP] funds. And so people needlessly suffered. And so we wanted to ensure and put some more guardrails in place to make sure that those policies go uninterrupted in the future.” (06:42–06:49)

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