Trump ‘Trying to Find Ways’ for SNAP to Be Allocated

The Trump administration is “trying to find ways” to award Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Host Matt Boyle observed that the Trump administration has done its best to downplay the negative effects on the American people as Democrats repeatedly refuse to reopen the government and restore normalcy.

“The president has tried to make this as painless as possible for ordinary Americans and – but again, we’re getting to this point where, you know, they can’t get on a plane. And you know, there are questions about the food stamp program, and you know, there are questions about this thing and that thing, and I think the consequences here are going to continue to pile up, and I hope the pressure will fall on them to open up the government soon,” he said. observed Boyle.

In turn, Emmer said the American people are very fortunate to have President Donald Trump in the White House, who is working to reduce the pain of the government shutdown for the American people.

“Somehow he found a way to pay our troops last month. Unfortunately, they don’t have the same flexibility right now. Now he’s trying to find ways to make sure that the 42 million low-income Americans who rely on the food stamp — or now known as the SNAP program — to feed themselves, he’s trying to figure out how to make that work,” he said.

“Keep in mind, a lower court told the administration that they had to pay all benefits for the month, which was about eight to $9 billion out of a disaster fund of about $5 billion, which, by the way, is not what the disaster fund – the emergency fund – was created for,” Emmer explained.