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So really, the country's on pins and needles.

You know, we have 42 million Americans dependent on government benefits for SNAP that are now desperate.

It's probably time if you have time and you have a local food bank maybe to help them out

if you can afford it.

I'm not asking people to do something that they can't afford to do.

I remember it was a big deal to me during COVID and I'm going to get in touch with my local food bank today and see if I can't help them out.

But it looks like if Democrats don't get that aggressive, and I think a lot of Democrats want to go home, that there probably is just enough votes to actually get the government open again.

And we'll watch this very, very closely.

Dick Durbin, I want you to hear the comments that he made about this.

The fate of this effort depends on both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

After a seven-week absence, the Speaker Johnson needs to call his members back and join us in the hard work that lies ahead.

Many of my friends are unhappy. They think we should have kept our government closed indefinitely to protest the policies of the Trump administration.

I share their opinions of this administration, but cannot

accept a strategy which wages political battle at the expense of my neighbors' paycheck or the food

for his children. Okay. And John Fetterman, Senator Angus King, and, you know, we just have just barely enough Democrats and I think the House vote is going to be like a one vote margin.

Anyway, here to break down where we are in all of this. Carol Roth, two-time New York Times bestselling author.

You will owe nothing and recovering investment banker.

Also, Mark Simone, host of the number one morning show on our affiliate in New York,

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