Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) hurled a feisty insult at President Donald Trump on Saturday during a Fox News interview on the government shutdown.
Host Jonathan Hunt, in for Kayleigh McEnany, pleaded with Friedman to find a way to move the stalled continuing resolution forward to end the shutdown, which has been going for four weeks.
“There has to be a middle ground, congresswoman,” he said.
“I agree,” Friedman said. “Look, most of the benefits for SNAP benefits are highest in red states. It doesn’t matter to me that these people voted for Donald Trump, if they’re MAGA — I don’t care. I don’t want to see any American go hungry. When I’m in the district, people coming up to me nonstop at the grocery store, on the streets, ‘Please stand strong, don’t give in, I can’t lose access to health care. This is too important for me and my family,’ and that’s a bright line for me something that my constituents have been extremely clear about.”
Friedman continued:
It is my position it’s been the position of AG’s, it’s been the position of the Democratic Party that the emergency reserves in the SNAP program were meant exactly for a government shutdown and other funding disruptions. Why do we think that? Because it’s literally written into the bill. Why
did it take a court order for the Trump administration to do the right thing and prevent Americans from going hungry? Why did the Trump administration say, “We’re not going to release SNAP funds, sue us. ” Why did it take a judge saying, “This is clearly written in the bill that these emergency funds are to be used in case of a government shutdown — feed Americans.” Why did it take that?
She then went after the president and his ongoing construction projects at the White House while Americans suffer.
“Instead of scrambling to find a way to fill people’s EBT cards and make sure they don’t go hungry, we have a president who tweeted photos of his gilded bathroom so he’s comfortable when he goes and has a pooh,” she said.
Friedman’s assertion left Hunt scrambling for words.
“The — moving on from that as quickly as we can,” Hunt said before launching into a question about the dearth of air traffic controllers.
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