We have a president who takes food away from children, allows starving children in Africa to die and knowingly eliminates health care from 11 to 15 million Americans while he builds a palace for himself, spends billions to upgrade a $400 million plane for himself, and buys Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem two airplanes worth $174 million.

And Republicans in the Trump administration and Congress tried to claim that they were powerless to make Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments as a result of the government shutdown.

“The Trump administration is weaponizing hunger as a political bargaining chip,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat overseeing food aid funding. “When it comes down to it, this is a choice.”

That choice was to watch child

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