I want to wish everyone a happy Halloween with whatever you're doing out there. But if you have the TV on before you get out at night or get ready to go, we do have a big show. So we begin with something important. I will mention by the end of the hour, we have something fun and even a little spooky Halloween stuff. So, you know, we're aware of what day it is. But we begin with something that matters,

whether Donald Trump wants to know about it or not. Food assistance in the United States is now

about to expire tonight because of a government shutdown. And while this is not the first time

we've heard parties blame each other for the shutdown, and this has happened before. Donald

Trump is not

uniquely unprecedented in presiding over one. It is a fact that the Republicans control the White

House and Congress. And it's also a fact that Donald Trump promised above all else last year when he

was campaigning to improve people's daily lives, prices, groceries, food, basic stuff. And maybe he was

effective on the messaging, but it is now also a fact that he is failing on delivering the

results. And what does failure look like? Remember, there are still rules in this country.

There's still some emergency mechanisms.

When we say there's a government shutdown, it affects a lot of people, but it doesn't mean the federal government stops doing anything. And the courts are still open, of course, which brings us to

the news late tonight, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordering President Trump to go forward

and release the funds, which are available for food assistance next month.

So a November's worth of funding for what they call SNAP.

Because the judge says that's necessary and available, the funds exist, and Trump, for some

reason, didn't see people going hungry as an emergency enough reason to free up those funds.

Now, here's exactly what the judge said in the ruling. There's no doubt that the $6 billion

in contingency funds are appropriated funds that are without a doubt necessary to carry out

the program's operation. Again, as I mentioned, some things get paused in a shutdown, but here the

money is available, and hungry children are not the first thing that under law, the Congress wanted

to be sacrificed, even when there is a shutdown of part of the government. Another judge in Boston

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