Chuck Schumer challenges GOPers to put food stamps-only bill to vote

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00:00The Post gets action. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the guy taking the heat for not

00:04providing enough Democrat votes to open the government, took to the Senate floor to respond

00:08to Wednesday's New York Post cover, which creatively read, they don't give a chuck,

00:13as the ongoing shutdown risks food aid for 43 million Americans. Schumer focused specifically

00:19on pushing to bring a bill to the floor that would only fund food stamps and thus would clear

00:24up the issue of tens of millions of hungry Americans, while the rest of the issues holding

00:28up progress remain at a stalemate. There's a bill right now from Senator Hawley,

00:33a Republican, a conservative Republican, that could ensure SNAP is funded.

00:38It has Republican and Democratic support. It's a bill I'd happily support and vote for.

00:44Senate Majority Leader John Thune has so far requested calls for smaller spending bills

00:49after Democrats voted 13 times to keep the government shut down. And it's not just food

00:53stamps that get hit at the end of the month. Air traffic controllers have been told not to expect

00:57their paychecks. At one of the country's busiest airports, Newark, a ground stop halted all flights

01:02for more than an hour due to staffing issues pegged to the shutdown. Congressional staffers

01:07who've been working through this shutdown have also been told not to expect their paychecks.