Today is day 28 of the government shutdown. Day 28, and we have seen plenty of pain from the shutdown already.

Hundreds of thousands of government workers without pay.

Airport shut down from staffing shortages. Maybe you've experienced delays as a result.

Vital government work just basically not being done across the country, not to the fault of the government workers. But as bad as

things have been so far, and they've been bad, they're likely about to get a lot worse for a much,

much larger group of people, an entirely preventable way, that are being forced upon the country

by the Republican members of Congress. This Saturday, November 1st,

more than 40 million Americans are set to lose access to SNAP benefits, to food stamps,

40 million people. And as a result, nearly everywhere in the country, food banks and local

charities are bracing themselves for a level of demand that they know that they cannot meet.

Imagine that feeling.

That's the cliff we as a country are headed for right now, just four days from now.

A Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, won't even bring Congress back into session to try to stop it, to try to negotiate it.

In fact, when he was asked about it, Johnson has now repeatedly said

that he and the Trump administration have done everything they can, but their hands are just tied.

Well, look, I can tell you, the administration has worked, as you all know, very creatively and

very hard to limit the pain on the Americans because of the Democrats' shutdown.

And the SNAP benefits is a unique situation. Think of it this way. The White House,

the executive branch in a shutdown, has a large control panel full of dials. Under the Obama

administration, they turn those dials, the pain dials, to 10 immediately.

The Republican Party is the opposite.

And President Trump has proven that.

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