Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we're looking to a number of stories and issues in the news. We'll begin with SNAP food stamp payments to one in eight Americans stopping on November 1st

since the House of Representatives is shut down, which will result in millions of kids going hungry

so that Speaker Johnson can protect pedophiles by avoiding a vote on the Epstein files.

Similarly, the recently minted billionaire Trump

and his cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires have no qualms about 42 million Americans

running out of food, which they blame Democrats for, pushing the lie that the Democrats are

shutting down the government so that illegal immigrants can get health care.

Joining us is Gina Plata Nino, the interim director for SNAP at the Food Research and Action

Center, or FRAC, a nonprofit where she works to address food insecurity in America and strengthen

SNAP access and benefits.

Previously, she served as a senior policy advisor for nutrition and agriculture in the Biden-Harris administration's Domestic Policy Council, where she helped lead the national strategy on hunger,

nutrition and health. Then with the ratio of CEO pay to the average worker skyrocketing from 20 to 1 in

1965 to over 360 to 1 today, we'll examine Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. The Tesla board of

Musk's friends and family will push through at the annual Tesla shareholders meeting

on November the 6th. Joining us is Bartlett Naler, a financial policy advocate at public citizens'

Congress Watch Division and the principle of Capital Strategies Consulting Inc, where he works

with progressive organizations attempting to reform public policies where corporations play a key role.

Formerly, he served as chief of investigations for the United States Senate Banking Committee,

where he led probes of the savings and loan crisis, corporate takeovers and insider trading.

His forthcoming report at Public Citizen is the unfathable explained.

Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package and how we got there. And finally, we will assess the price

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