Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said that Democrats were using the suffering of Americans for “leverage” in the government shutdown.

Host Kristen Welker said, “I do want to ask you about the people who are suffering right now. You have talked about this, this SNAP, the food assistance program, roughly 42 million people, Senator, rely on this. That ran out of funds on November 1st. The Trump administration has fought this all the way up to the Supreme Court to not fully fund this critical food assistance program. What do you say to the allegations made by many Democrats that the Trump administration is simply weaponizing hunger?”

Lankford said, “Yeah, this is the spin. Literally, this is the painful spin that people across the country are saying: ‘I’m so sick

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