I’m About to SNAP! | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Angela Rye's first guest is the California Assemblywoman from the 61st district, Tina McKinnor. Angela chats with her about California’s Prop 50, a ballot measure to redraw the state’s electoral map to favor Democrats.
Our second guest is Melanie Campbell, the president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, a national civil rights nonprofit organization. She is best known for her voting-rights activism and is dedicated to mentoring and providing leadership opportunities for the next generation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Native LandPod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:14.7 | Are you aware of USDA's SNAP contingency fund? |
| 0:20.0 | Yes or no? |
| 0:21.1 | Yes or no? Yes or no? |
| 0:21.9 | Are you aware of it? |
| 0:23.1 | Sir, I'm aware of that issue. |
| 0:24.5 | Are you aware that USDA, despite bipartisan demands from Congress, is refusing to use that fund to help keep food assistance going to families after Saturday? |
| 0:35.6 | Yes or no? |
| 0:36.4 | Senator, my understanding that is now in litigation. |
| 0:39.8 | Right, it's in litigation because the administration is refusing to use the funds, correct? |
| 0:46.2 | It wouldn't be in litigation if the administration would just use the $5 billion that's available to use, correct, on top of the other funds that my |
| 0:57.2 | colleague just referred to? |
| 1:00.3 | So that's a claim in litigation, and because it's in litigation, it's not something that I can |
| 1:05.9 | So it's in litigation because these are decisions that the Trump administration that the USDA is making |
| 1:14.6 | in real time. |
| 1:15.6 | They're deciding to pit hungry people against sick people. |
| 1:20.6 | And I think that's immoral. |
| 1:21.6 | There's nothing legally stopping the administration from making emergency food assistance funds that they're just sitting on available for Georgia kids and families in November. |
| 1:32.0 | But even as we debate what to do about these ACA subsidies, it is indisputable that the USDA, under the Trump administration, is choosing to pull hungry children into this fight. |
| 1:49.4 | They're not just in this fight. They're being pulled into this fight used as pawns for short-term political gain. |
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