00:00Fetterman apologizes for absolute failure of Dems' shutdown.
00:05Senator John Fetterman is frustrated as this fellow Democrat said the government shutdown reaches its fifth week.
00:10The senator expressed his frustration, especially at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program expiring Saturday on CNN Thursday, per the Daily Wire.
00:20It's an absolute failure, said Fetterman, as 40 million low-income Americans could lose access to food benefits.
00:26Imagine 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've depended on is gone, because we can't even agree to just open things up.
00:38I'm apologizing that we can't even get our S together and just open up our government, he continued.
00:43Fetterman spoke as the Senate adjourned without results, as the U.S. heads into the 34th day of the shutdown, the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
00:51The stalemate comes as families deal with high grocery prices and strained food banks.
00:57Fetterman of his wife, Giselle's, free store in Braddock, Pennsylvania, which distributes food several times a week.
01:04The lines are growing by the day.
01:06I'll encounter people this weekend that have no SNAP benefits.
01:10I don't have an explanation for them, he said.
01:12All I can say is, I'm sorry.
01:15Fetterman has been one of the few Democrats to vote in favor of ending the shutdown.
01:18He also lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said the shutdown was getting better for us.
01:26Ask the hungry people on Saturday.
01:28Americans are not leveraged, Fetterman said.
01:31This is not some shh game show about who's winning.
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