Hey, everybody. We got a disturbing one today, as usual. My guest, David Weigel, who writes for the news website Semaphore, joins me again. He's a great guest.

And we're going to discuss the never-ending government shutdown, which is about to become the longest in our history,

surpassing the 2018-2019 shutdown during Donald Trump's first term and with federal workers working without pay and 42 million Americans about to lose

their SNAP benefits. That means millions of children going hungry in the richest country in the

world. Of course, that's not necessary. The Trump administration can activate a SNAP contingency fund, which was approved for use during the longest shutdown in our nation's history during Donald Trump's first term.

And hey, didn't we learn in Hillbilly Elegie that J.D. Vance grew up poor and benefited from food stamps?

What was that? Now he's willing to let millions of children go hungry.

You know, and he seems like such a good guy.

Speaking of good guys, Chinese Premier Xi met with Trump in South Korea.

And according to China experts, came away with a very good deal for China.

China will now sell us rare earth minerals and buy American soybeans in exchange for concessions from Trump to lower tariffs.

Boy, that all seemed unnecessary, didn't it?

And Trump announced that we're going to test nuclear weapons again because other nuclear

powers are testing theirs, except they're not.

No country has tested nuclear weapons since North Korea did it last in 2017. The question is, is Trump confused, or is he lying? Or, of course,

both? We'll be discussing these matters in the shutdown with David Weigel of Semaphore.

It's a great one.

You know.

Or a change.

While we're approaching the longest shutdown in history, and 42 million Americans are about to lose their SNAP benefits.

Millions of children are going to go hungry, and they don't have to.

There's a contingency fund, right, that we can access,

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