White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pulled no punches in going after the Democrats for the Schumer Shutdown and the ill effects it is having across the country, exposing as she did so how over 40 million Americans who rely on some form of food assistance are being put at risk of going hungry by Democrats leaving SNAP and like programs unfunded, with the funding set to run out on November 1.
As background, the shutdown began on October 1, after the Senate failed to strike a spending deal on September 30 that would keep the government open by funding it with a Continuing Resolution. As the shutdown has ground on, funding for various programs has run out or is running out, which is now happening to the food assistance programs, which will run out of funding on November 1.
Such is what Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt commented on during her press conference, exposing that Democrats are inflicting unnecessary pain on the American people by refusing to reopen the government and fully fund vital assistance programs like SNAP, on which many low income families rely every month.
Beginning, she noted that SNAP is already beginning to lapse in some states across America, saying, “The unnecessary pain, unfortunately, does not end there. Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, which provides food benefits to low-income families, is beginning to lapse this week in some states.”
Continuing, she noted that if the shutdown, already one of the longest in American history, grinds on into next week, that will mean the Americans who are being held hostage by Democrat demands will not receive SNAP benefits. She said, “If Democrats continue to hold Americans hostage, there will not be enough funds to provide SNAP benefits for more than 40 million Americans on November 1, that is next week.”
Then, concluding her epic takedown of the Democrats, Leavitt noted that the horrendous purpose of this is seemingly to provide funding for nonsense like taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal aliens. She said, “Democrats are solely responsible for all of this unnecessary pain. Why are they doing it to give taxpayer-funded health care benefits to illegal aliens, some of whom are violent criminals?”
Watch her here:
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Commenting on another major shutdown-related problem in a post on X, Leavitt noted that Thanksgiving travel plans for millions of Americans will be disrupted by it if Democrats don’t do the common sense thing and reopen the government, saying, “With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, we are nearing the busiest travel period of the entire year, when millions of Americans will use airports to travel to see their loved ones.”
Adding to that, the press secretary explained, “Let us be very clear from the White House: if the Democrats continue to keep the government closed up until Thanksgiving, we fear there will be significant flight delays, disruptions, and cancellations in major airports across the country. It does not have to be this way – if Democrats would just vote to REOPEN the government and end their reckless shutdown.”
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