Fetterman rails on his colleagues for not getting their ‘sh*t together’ with SNAP on the line amid the shutdown

Sen. John Fetterman is seen with reporters and an aide as he sits on a bench near the Senate chamber at the US Capitol on October 30, 2025. Francis Chung/Politico/AP

Sen. John Fetterman was exasperated with his colleagues Thursday, as the Senate heads home in the stalemate’s fifth week and millions of Americans are due to lose federal food assistance this weekend.

“It’s an absolute failure what occurred here for the last month, and now things are really going to land, and imagine being a parent with a couple kids, and how you’re going to fill their refrigerator and pack their lunches and get on with their lives when the things that they’ve depended on now is gone, because we can’t even agree to just open things up,” the Pennsylvania Democrat told CNN.

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