SNAP Timing

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I find this whole SNAP conversation all of a sudden, magically,
we've got four hundred million dollars for SNAP here in
Connecticut is today election day. Even Eliker was out there saying,
we've got them. We're gonna take care of SNAP. I
just figured out a way to do it on election day. Uh.

(00:23):
And so it goes Lamont Bloomy Tong, who even in
this still shot here, there can't even be a still shot.
I've got a story in front of an MSN for
what the story in front of me, and you know,
Bloomenthal's camera ready in Lamont's camera, and Tong is just
like mid He's oh, you can't get a shot of

(00:45):
him without him appearing to be in the throes of
voicing disbelief, they say. Minutes after Lamont, Bloomy, and Tong
wrapped up a news conference discuss discussed saying the ongoing
fail fallout of the government shutdown for people in Connecticut,

(01:05):
including three hundred and sixty thousand monthly recipients of SNAP
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as the acronym stands for their
food benefits suspended Saturday on Saturday before election day, Tong

(01:27):
said definitive word on the resumption of SNAP benefits was
imminent because the administration of Trump was under a deadline
by the close of business Monday to tell two federal
judges whether it will be partially or fully fund SNAP benefits. Now.
Trump had tweeted out yesterday, rights all up to Democrats

(01:49):
as far as SNAP. They're the holdouts here as far
as our ability to do this, he tweeted, I have
a truth social for what it's worth, SNAP that benefits
which increased by billions and billions of dollars manyfold during
Crooked Joe Biden's disastrous term in office due to the

(02:11):
fact that they were haphazardly handed to anyone who asked,
as opposed to just those in need, which is the
purpose of SNAP. We'll be given only when the radical
left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do,
and not before. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
President DJT. Now that was sent to me from someone

(02:34):
last night the minute it came out, and they wrote
with it, this is what I voted for. You know,
that's kind of a very popular battle. This is what
I voted for. This, this sort of hardball is what
I voted for I look at it and I'm like
snap benefits, which increased by the billions and billions of
dollars manyfold during Crooked Joe's disastrous term in office due

(02:59):
to the fact that there were haphazardly quote unquote handed
He put that handed in quotation marks to anyone who asked,
as opposed to those in need, which is the purpose
of SNAP will be given only when the radical left
Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and
not before. Now that didn't help. That spurred many probably

(03:20):
to vote yeah, And all it needed to be was
worded a little bit differently because what he's saying isn't inaccurate.
But drop the crooked you know, you don't need the
crooked Joe Biden doesn't even know who he is. Weary
is what he doesn't what's what he's sick. He's gone

(03:44):
disastrous term drop it. Drop the disastrous only because those
that's fuel, man, that's fuel for many a radical left.
Drop the radical That's what I would say. You know,
I was a proof reader and a copywriter for a

(04:06):
good chunk and in the beginning of my career, all
he needed to say snap benefits, which increased by billions
during Joe Biden's time in office due to the fact
that they were handed out in a way you know
that lent itself to some receiving them who really didn't

(04:28):
need them, as opposed to who the program is designed for.
Those in need will be given when Democrats open up
the government, which they can easily do. And you wouldn't
have spurred, and you wouldn't have handed a weapon now,
they say, Tong said. The question was whether the Trump

(04:53):
administration will use a five billion dollar contingency fund to
provide reduced reduced snap benefits for November, or fully fund
the program using both contingency funds and additional available funds.
Lamont reported during this conference that the legislature would act
in a special legislative session next week to appropriate four

(05:17):
hundred million dollars to five hundred million dollars in state
serve plus funds. We got that access, We got that
hanging around, four hundred million to five hundred million hanging
around to offset the reductions in federally funded services. They
get to look like come to the rescue. You know
the optics of it. You know that overroad a shootout

(05:42):
on the streets of New because even a elekra waight in.
He's like, we've got money, we can help you. We've
got the funds that'll galvanize people, that'll get that'll get
people in parts of New Haven out to vague. Okay,
I gotta eat, you know. And I was counting on
this and even those who I can still eat, but

(06:06):
I like this them too. It's a weapon. It's not
a program. Snap isn't a program. It's a political weapon.