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Thanks in part to the Democratic sweep across this week’s elections, President Donald Trump seems to have finally realized that Americans blame him , and the Republican Party, for the government shutdown . However, he still doesn’t appear to understand a likely reason for that blame: the unnecessary, cruelly forced mass hunger unique to this particular shutdown.

Social media campaigns , nationwide reports of lengthy food-bank lines , state-government emergency declarations , and Jimmy Kimmel have all helped bring attention to the catastrophic cessation of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Access Program, historically referred to as food stamps. Ad

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