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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: As SNAP Benefits Set to Run Out Amid Government Shutdown, Democratic and Republican Lawmakers Blame Each Other [Watch (HLS stream): As SNAP Benefits Set to Run Out Amid Government Shutdown, Democratic and Republican Lawmakers Blame Each Other](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ASMabTmy.m3u8) (3:37)  _Published 2025-10-29. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to start halting on Nov. 1, the one-month anniversary of the government shutdown, unless the Republicans and Democrats come to an agreement and reopen the government. SNAP, a federal initiative administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides vital assistance to low-income households, many of whom rely on the food stamps to purchase their weekly groceries._ --- Oct 29, 2025 7:01 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Republican and Democratic Lawmakers React to Government Shutdown as Blame Game Ensues](/video/pmSknhIm/) ### Republican and Democratic Lawmakers React to Government Shutdown as Blame Game Ensues [How the Post-Pandemic Cut on SNAP Benefits Will Affect Millions](/video/r8ShWBPZ/) ### How the Post-Pandemic Cut on SNAP Benefits Will Affect Millions [Australia Blames a Foreign Government for the Cyberattack on Lawmakers](/video/wFoWBbqa/) ### Australia Blames a Foreign Government for the Cyberattack on Lawmakers --- ## Transcript And now, for the first time in history, a President Donald Trump is refusing to fund Snap during a shutdown. 42 million Americans, hungry children, middle class families who have just someone's lost a job, veterans, senior citizens who struggle to pay for their food. All of these people will lose their Snap benefits not because the money's gone, not because it's not permitted. Because Donald Trump ordered it stopped. Donald Trump is a vindictive politician and a heartless man. We know that there'll be 60 votes for that. Why aren't they calling it up? They're not calling it up because the house isn't here to pass it. That's the way it works. The house would have to come here. They probably would have to vote on the Epstein files. But they're choosing to let kids go hungry instead of having to vote on the Epstein files. There's no doubt about it. They have been out for six weeks on vacation. Just think, if they have all this money for Argentina and all this money for other things, they have enough money to keep funding snap and they know it. The Democrats are coming near now to a cliff that they will not be able to turn back from. And it's of great concern to everyone who's paying attention to all this. You will note that more air traffic controllers and TSA agents and park rangers are about to go without a paycheck. You've got families and children that rely upon Snap benefits that are going to go hungry here at the end of the week. You've got more critical workers, by the way, including the people who are the stewards of our nuclear defense arsenal, who are forced to stay at home as the government remains closed. The Democrats own every one of these consequences, and the Democrats have some soul searching to do. Are they going to continue to do that, or are they going to run from the far left and do their bidding, or are they going to do right by millions of federal workers in the American people who continue to show up to work daily without pay? Are they going to do right and reopen the government so that those people are taken care of, instead of the Marxist far left base in their party? That is the question. And we pray that Senate Democrats come to their senses before the situation becomes too dire on Saturday. This gets very real. Snap benefits will stop flowing to all those who need it. You're talking about tens of millions of Americans at risk of going hungry. If the Senate Democrats can continue this gambit instead of taking simple vote to fund the government, which Senate Democrats have now had more than a dozen opportunities to do, Democrat attorneys general are suing the federal government to try to compel Snap benefits to flow, despite the government being closed, and despite the fact that there is no money to do that, Congress hasn't authorized that the contingency fund for that was something they batted down. When the Democrats decided to vote against the CR and shut the government for Democrats, there's a much easier option on the table. Just go do your job and fully fund all these programs. We have very important work to do here, and that's why we're pleading with them, not Chuck Schumer. Look, I think Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are irredeemable at this point. I don't think they'll be able to tell in New York and his disciples that they voted to open the government. I've given up on the leadership. So we're trying to appeal to a handful of moderates or centrists who care more about the American people and will put the people's interests over their own and do the right thing in the Senate. I mean, there's no point in me sitting down with Chuck Schumer. 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