As the White House fought not to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to 42 million Americans, it already had ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reopen nearly 2,100 Farm Service Agency (FSA) county offices to pay farmers and ranchers $3 billion in federal "aid from existing programs."

Just think about that for a one shutdown minute.

The White House ordered thousands of employees to turn the lights on at almost every county FSA across the country to distribute $3 billion to maybe a million or so landowners and farmers even as it fought tooth-and-nail not to pay the legally obligated $8 billion in monthly SNAP benefits to 42 million qualified recipients.

Equally compelling, not one major farm group stood up or spoke out for the SNAP millions while most

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