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  1. >“I think it’s simpler said than done,” Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall responded, adding, “On the one hand, there needs to be some pressure to put on the Democrats to come to the table and do something.”

    >Marshall, who is also an obstetrician-gynecologist, said he had a “lot of concern” about the SNAP and WIC program. He observed, “**It is very important to my practice. Lots of pregnant women, breastfeeding women use that program as well. I think it’s a good pressure point for them.”**

    This is a wild thing to admit, dude. “I’m a doctor so I know that making pregnant women suffer is going to be a really effective political lever for me.”

  2. Great, now take down the notice on the snap benefits govt webpage that is blaming democrats, you know as it’s an unlawful and a blatant lie.

  3. Food aid isn’t supposed to be at wish during a shutdown, Trump is just illegally withholding the funding that would otherwise go to it, because he doesn’t care if people live or die.

  4. Backing down would be the worst thing that the Democrats could do. If they agreed with the Republican demands to lift the shutdown then the Republicans would waste no time on blaming the costs of rising healthcare on them amongst everything else.

    The Trump cultists are a lost cause, but ‘the Republicans cut your food stamps while splurging on Argentina and Trump’s ballroom’ is an excellent attack line for independent voters at the midterms.

  5. Benoit_Guillette on

    Conservatives never believed in public governance. For them, everything has to be private. Trump only had to pick 20 misfits to destroy quickly the federal government. “Communist” China has an easy time defeating the U.S. with its weak government, a bankrupt government in fact, bankrupt morally and economically.

  6. FlavorBlaster42 on

    Democrats can’t reopen government on their own, while Republicans *can* reopen the government whenever they choose to… they just choose not to, because they must protect the Shitgibbon Pedophile and prevent the Epstein Files from being released.

  7. expertdaddypig43 on

    The dems cannot break their lines… if they do we will all be bankrupted my medical insurance premiums. All so we can throw another trillion dollars up to the people who need it least of all.

  8. superlurker906 on

    What are the chances that the benefits will be saved by a “heroic” move by your president, and people will be expected to say thank you.

  9. No-Commercial-3121 on

    Have the GOP convinced the GOP holdouts or the non voters? It seems like a stalemate because Speaker Johnson isn’t advancing it.

  10. On Friday I brought a couple armloads of non-perishable ready-to-eat food to my son’s Pre-K teacher in case she (or her fellow teachers) have any kids in the grade with food insecurity, lunchboxes not sufficient, etc. She was thrilled about it.

    If you have kids or friends that teach and are able to help out, check with them to see if they have storage in their classrooms and if they’re willing to keep some food on hand for kids in need. A lot of teachers are doing this independently, spending chunks of their salaries to help out their students. They already do so much on their own to compensate for inadequate funding and have such big hearts that they would go broke to keep their students from going hungry.

    See if the teachers you know could put some snacks to use. Veggie straws, raisins, cracker packs, etc. in single-serving packages might not be as healthy as fresh produce, but it could make the difference between a kid eating or not. Any port in a storm is better than the alternative; making a small difference is better than nothing.

  11. The conservative sub still hasn’t had a post about this lmao. Must still be working out their talking points which we already know what they will be lmao. One of the most pathetic subs out there. Never seen a more whiny group of people sucking off a elderly man with orange makeup. Fucking weirdos.

  12. All they need to do is point out what the Trump administration has been about to find money for.

  13. 2Autistic4DaJoke on

    Blame him more loudly. Go on news stations and talk about it. Talk about the people who will go hungry. All of it.

  14. throwaway1601900 on

    Meanwhile Argentina gets $40B and Trump isn’t even in the US. Fuck MAGA for doing this to America.

  15. Ok-Wealth-7322 on

    *Blaming Trump*

    Uh, of course they’re *blaming Trump*, it’s entirely his fault. He has control of all three branches of Government and he even has most major media outlets doing his bidding.

  16. definitelynotacop222 on

    This is the first time I have heard people I my life actually blame a sitting president and republicans for something like this. Democrats are sharing the blame from what I’m seeing and hearing. But it always starts “I can’t believe Trump and Republicans.”

  17. Radically-Peaceful on

    Trump/GOP: we want to take away people’s health care and we will starve them to do it.

  18. Why would Dems flinch? They are trying to save us . Or at least do the least amount of harm.

  19. MercantileReptile on

    Credit where Credit is due – Democrats held out far longer than expected already. For the sake of people’s healthcare, may they continue to hold.

  20. Christian conservatives never show up in good faith. If they fold over SNAP then health coverage goes. HOLD. THE. FUCKING. LINE.

  21. If you aren’t aware, Rachel Maddow did an interesting bit on why they aren’t changing this. Insurance premiums could rise to between $15,000-$25,000 per month for a family of four making between $85k-$110k (in household income) depending on the state. You do that and that is going to entirely stall the economy. No one will be able to buy extracurricular activities *at all* in many situations, which will absolutely annihilate entire industries.

    There needs to be a greater effort to make this distinction clear to those being blatantly lied to on Fox News. They are saying they’re not even cutting funding to food insecurity programs, giving tax breaks to Americans when it’s really only the top 5%, and that democrats are voting to give illegal immigrants health insurance when that’s not even legal. One side can lie constantly, while the other is doing a poor job of emphasizing the truth.

  22. nyet-marionetka on

    Too late to save SNAP, too late to restart before Election Day unless they haul ass to get back to DC before the weekend when they’re not in session right now, what’s the next incentive for them to move on even though they don’t want to? If things go awful for the GOP at Election Day?

  23. Dry-Amphibian1 on

    HOLD THE LINE

    if folks have to go hungry let them do it under the trump administration. Let the GOP do this.

  24. midnight-on-the-sun on

    Somewhere in here…it needs to get fixed that the Republicans in the House of Representatives just take a vacation for an extended period of time?
    Did your boss say you could do that?? Who’s paying your pay check Republican House of Representatives??? Mike Johnston has way to much power in this too.

  25. They better not fucking cave on this shit – do your jobs, and protect our rights. Make them show their asses and harm their base.

    MAGA is never going to come around, they’re fucking braindead. We just need to make them feel the stress that poor minorities are feeling right now – we’re on the right track.

  26. Justasillyliltoaster on

    $40 billion for Argentina

    $0 for starving Americans 

    Trump made the decision 

  27. THE-LORD-RETURNS on

    Gotta hold the line. Yes, people are going without, many of them rightly so because they voted for this, but this is where we are.

  28. It is Trump we all know it. Trump and his small army of sycophants and Russian and Chinese chat bots don’t mean shit

  29. If they cave, the gop will blame them for what the gop is doing to healthcare. They cannot relent.

  30. It’s the dictator deciding to either kill people through starvation or kill people through disease and lack of healthcare. He doesn’t care at all for anyone who isn’t obscenely wealthy or doesn’t meet his shallow beauty standards for others.

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