Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find out podcast and welcome to the 20-25 election preview. We finally

made it, guys. We have an election coming today. We are taping on Monday, but I'm going to pretend

like we're taping on Tuesday. I swear to God, I just got PTSD from you saying that. I mean,

just wait until when we're at 2026 election night, which will be a

true thing.

Before we dive into all the races, we want to, there's a bit of breaking news and we want to

announce an exciting partnership that we're doing.

But the Trump administration just came out and said that they are only going to partially

fund SNAP benefits in November, even though they

have an emergency fund that they actually tapped in 2019 to make sure that those benefits

continue on for another two to three weeks while the shutdown continues.

So they are withholding food benefits from people to try to get Democrats back to the table, which is as cruel as it sounds.

And we'll talk about this in a second.

But it leads into our next piece, which is, you know, with the government shutdown, federal employees have not given paychecks, I think, for at least two or three pay cycles now.

And a lot of federal employees

do not make a ton of money. And so they're having a lot of trouble right now paying bills

and importantly feeding their families. You know, we've talked a lot about SNAP recipients,

potentially losing their funding, which is devastating. But federal employees are also having

this same situation. So we're actually

working with a group called the labor force, and we are trying to raise money to purchase

grocery store gift cards for folks so that they can buy food, put food on their table,

while Donald Trump and the Republicans hold the government hostage, all so they could take away health care

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