Josh Shapiro Calls Out JD Vance’s Appalachia Roots In Slam Over SNAP Benefits Cut

David Gilmour Nov 7th, 2025, 5:39 pm

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) delivered a blistering rebuke of Vice President JD Vance at a Philadelphia press conference on Friday, fuming that he “turned his damn back” on the Appalachian communities he once claimed to represent and of overseeing policies that leave Americans “hungry.”

Shapiro’s comments came after he was asked by a reporter about Vance’s public condemnation of a court-ordered directive to release SNAP funding as “absurd.”

The governor clapped back with a direct call out of the vice president’s Appalachian roots, blasting his “bullsh*t politics” and arguing that Vance was a “total phony” who “doesn’t give a damn about all Americans

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