MAGA Mike Johnson Just Lied About Contingency Plan For Funding SNAP

As NOTUS reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had a plan to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) running during a government shutdown by using contingency funds. But that disappeared from their website. Still, MAGA Mike Johnson joined Dana Bash on CNN and lied about that.

"Can I just ask you, because you mentioned it, that you all have found ways to pay members of the military, which people understand, and WIC, which people also understand," Bash said. "But why are you drawing the line now on 40 million Americans who literally will not be able to eat without government assistance?"

"Why not help them in the short term?" she continued.

"Wait a minute," Johnson interrupted. "Wait. I reject the premise of the question. I'm not drawing the line."

"The Democrats are drawing the line," he continued. "If we had a contingency fund that we could use, that would be done."

"The White House has demonstrated over and over, the executive branch, all the cabinet secretaries are doing everything they can to mitigate and reduce the pain, but that ability is not available for SNAP because the contingency fund had to be prior authorized by Congress," he said.

"Well, they say that that's not what the law shows," Bash said.

"Well, that's ridiculous," Trump's little Johnson insisted.

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