SNAP Food-Aid Program Set to Run Out of Funding

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00:00I have no news on when we're going to reopen, although the president seems to think

00:03that he has the thought of going nuclear, the nuclear option in the Senate and the filibuster.

00:09That was his post on Truth Social that we'll talk about in a moment here. But of course,

00:15lawmakers are gone, most of them. The Senate is now out for the weekend. Everybody is getting

00:19ready to go pass out candy. And tomorrow's a big day, November 1st. Snap benefits begin to expire.

00:26Open enrollment begins for those seeking health care with subsidies not yet addressed. And

00:33Head Start also starts to go broke tomorrow. We also have elections ahead next Tuesday. So there

00:39are some thoughts that as talks begin behind the scenes in Washington, maybe something's about to

00:44shake loose. But the talking points haven't changed. Listen to House Speaker Mike Johnson

00:48from earlier today. The same Democrats who've been perfectly fine with defunding Snap and WIC

00:55for over a month now are suddenly claiming to be outraged that Republicans and President Trump

01:01can't just wave some magic wand and fix the mess that they themselves have created.

01:06If they're suddenly waking up to the pain their reckless decision is causing, then there's one

01:11simple way to fix it. They can come back in here and vote to reopen the government.

01:16Of course, they're not back in here. As I mentioned, everybody's away for the weekend. And while the

01:21House has been out of session for more than 45 days, Laura Davison covering all of this here in

01:26our Bloomberg Washington Bureau, our deputy Washington Bureau chief with us now at the desk,

01:31the president says, go nuclear and the filibuster. This thing would be done in just moments.

01:39What's the majority leader think of that? He does not like this idea one bit. He, you know,

01:43have for months has been saying he doesn't like it. He came out, you know, his spokesman came out.

01:47And after Trump made this post yesterday, you know, saying he wanted Republicans to do that,

01:51said, nope, this is not on the table. This is not happening. Um, and Thune rightly recognizes that,

01:56you know, the Republicans, Republicans are not going to be in control of Washington forever,

01:59and they don't want Democrats to have the ability to just enact sweeping changes when they're in power,

02:03you know, whether that be, you know, two, four, six, eight years from now.

02:06Well, short of that, uh, we have no off ramp at the moment. There has been chatter as you've been

02:13reporting, Laura, that there are some rank and file talks underway, although we've heard that

02:18before. I am compelled, though, by this headline that Chuck Schumer met yesterday with Senator Katie

02:23Britt. Uh, does that give us a sense that the gears are starting to turn? It could. Um, you know,

02:29Katie Britt's state of Alabama is a state that relies heavily on stat benefits. Uh, you know,

02:34we, we were doing an analysis, um, of all of the districts, and there are lots of Trump districts

02:38that, uh, you know, are very reliant, um, on this, this food aid. So that could start to see

02:43Republicans seeing pressure, uh, from folks at home. You know, you have headstarts closing. You

02:47also have, you know, military worker, uh, rather federal workers who are going without pay. The

02:51thing I think we really need to watch that's going to be the pressure point, though, are airports.

02:55And we've seen some sporadic closures, you know, ground stoppages, including at DCA yesterday,

02:59where Thune was stranded at the Capitol, couldn't get back to South Dakota. Uh, but they've sort of

03:05been temporary. We haven't seen system wide outages that will really be the thing that could tip this

03:09into negotiating mode. Do we hear any chatter about a walkout? I mean, obviously the, the air

03:15traffic controllers are not being paid and they're all working overtime just by the nature of their

03:19jobs. When does the union say it's sick out day? That's, uh, you know, what our, our team here is

03:23very closely trying to figure out, you know, they have not indicated that even, uh, you know, last shot

03:27down back in 2018, 2019, uh, you know, we had a day where you had Miami, Philadelphia, LaGuardia,

03:32and Newark that were basically all had ground stoppages and just totally messed up all air

03:37travel across the, uh, the Eastern seaboard. And that, you know, later that night is when

03:41the shutdown ended. Um, so, and that wasn't even a coordinated thing. That was just enough

03:44people saying on day 35, I can't, it doesn't make sense for me to go into work. I've got other

03:48priorities. I need to be driving for DoorDash or Uber or whatever to, to pay the bills.

03:52What up?

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