For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance the line that Republicans don’t want people to have health insurance.
Referencing a recent court ruling, Colbert declared, “The administration says they couldn't use USDA emergency funds for SNAP, but thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge directed the Trump administration to use those emergency funds to pay for food aid in November. Of course, like all good news during the Trump administration, he managed to make it bad. Because now the administration says they'll only partially fund SNAP, and it could take months. Because the administration declined to dip into other contingency pots to fund the full $8 billion needed to cover SNAP.”
Breaking out his Trump impression, Colbert continued, “"I'm sorry. I stopped listening 'cause I got so hungry after the word 'dip.' Is the dip in the pot?"
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