U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins claims there is a “silver lining” to the impending food aid cutoff that will impact millions of low-income Americans.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds will expire Nov. 1, on the 32nd day of the government shutdown, leaving more than 40 million people without their monthly benefits.

Rollins on Friday said the “ silver lining in all of this is that we’re having a national conversation about our SNAP program.”

“This has shined a light on a program that especially under the last administration has just become so bloated, so broken, so dysfunctional, so corrupt, that it is astonishing when you dig in,” she added .

Rollins’ comments generated swift backlash among Democratic politicians and liberal political commentators.

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