With food benefits for more than 1 million Bay State residents set to run out within days, a Massachusetts lawmaker says President Donald Trump can break a standoff over government funding for the program.

If he wants to, that is.

“If the president treats it as an issue that affects American children and not as a, quote, Democrat program,” then there’s room to preserve the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss told WCVB-TV’s “On the Record” program on Sunday.

Trump “has been saying that if this shutdown continues, ‘I’m going to cut Democrat programs,’” Auchincloss, D-4th District, said. “Well, two-thirds of SNAP recipients are families with children. This isn’t a Democrat program. This is a program that makes sure that kids go to school with ful

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