The money’s there.

Don’t be fooled by the Republican rhetoric about SNAP benefits. They will tell you that they have no choices, that it’s the Democrats who are to blame because they won’t sign onto plans to reopen the government, that their hands are tied and there’s no money to be found.

They’re lying.

From the White House to the governor’s mansion, they’re lying. All of them.

The truth is, even without reopening, there are funds available to pay for a program that feeds 15 percent of Alabamians – more than 750,000 people. There are actually multiple options at the state and federal levels to either fully or partially fund the program and ensure that poor people, including tens of thousands of children, aren’t going hungry.

They don’t want to.

Instead, they want to use the spectacl

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