"I will witness it firsthand, Fetterman said. My wife, Giselle, she develops the Free Store in our community and it distributes food there times a week. And her lines have already got longer. And now I will encounter people that have no SNAP benefits starting on Saturday, and I don't have an explanation for them. All I can say is, I'm sorry."
"It's an absolute failure what occurred here the past month. And now things are really going to land. And imagine being a parent with a couple kids, and how you're going to fill their refrigerator, and pack their lunches, and get on with their lives when the things that they depended on now is gone because we can't even agree to open things upAnd like I said to all of the viewers I'm apologizing that we can't even get our shit together and just open our government."
Sen. John Fetterman urges Democratic colleagues to reopen the government to prevent immediate harm to constituents reliant on SNAP and community food programs. He reports that his wife's Free Store already shows longer lines and that people will lose SNAP benefits starting Saturday, leaving him unable to explain the cuts beyond apologizing. He calls the recent month an absolute failure and describes the practical consequences for parents struggling to feed children. He rejects framing the shutdown as a political advantage, saying Americans are not leverage and urging bipartisan agreement to extend support and open the government.
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