WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans were set to go hungry this weekend after Senate Democrats blocked a government funding bill 13 times in six weeks — keeping vital food programs offline ahead of the New York City mayoral election and gubernatorial votes in New Jersey and Virginia.
“They’re setting everything up for next week. They know they’ve got to get out,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) predicted to Politico Friday of the Democratic strategy. “If they do it before Tuesday, then their base may not show up because it looks like they caved … That’s why they’re setting everything up to open next week. We’ll be open next Wednesday, or Wednesday night, or Thursday.”
The real-world pain coming to nearly 42 million poor Americans enrolled in the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the result of Democrats refusing to drop their demands to extend ObamaCare subsidies due to expire at the end of this year.
“Democrats have instigated a disgusting dereliction of duty unlike anything I have seen in all my years doing this work,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said at a Capitol Hill press conference alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
Rollins added that she was “embarrassed” for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has been the shutdown’s driving force.
Maybe their plan is to leverage the shutdown for the NY mayoral and NJ / VA governors races….
Hopefully, people are smarter than that….
Hopefully, enough people are smarter than that….
Poor people or greedy people?