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Tim Kaine: “People were suffering the loss of SNAP benefits.”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 03:56

So at some point you can test somebody's red line, but at some point it becomes beating your head against a red line. And meanwhile, air traffic control is getting chaotic and even dangerous. People were suffering the loss of SNAP benefits. Every day the shutdown goes on, the pain increases. We need to open government again and then put that health care debate front and center without the background damage of the shutdown, obscuring Americans view of who's fighting for their health care and who isn't. (03:56–04:00)

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Asserts that people were losing SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

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