Well Democrats, there goes your “leverage.”

The government shutdown continues unabated despite the SNAP funding deadline. As the fractious factions on Capitol Hill careened closer to the impending cutoff in food stamp benefits, the question lingered: “They wouldn’t stop feeding Americans in need, would they?”

Yes, they would.

“I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., said in a recent interview on Fox News.

Both sides of the aisle are shamelessly putting party politics before people, despite knowing the consequences of their inaction. SNAP benefits stopped on Saturday.

There’s a small

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