Dems Claim President Trump Is Letting Kids Go Hungry by Not Taping Contingency Funds for SNAP When They Know That Would Require Congressional Authorization

🚨CHUCK SCHUMER gets TRIGGERED by questions. @AndiNapier asks what happens when SNAP contingency runs out, do Dems fold then?

Schumer is frustrated, then hands it over to Amy Klobuchar, who mentions Epstein files, then Schumer gets angrier. pic.twitter.com/vM5L7b6dkC

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2025

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Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) was brutally fact checked for a spurious claim about funding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food stamps to over 40 million Americans. SNAP funding is scheduled to dry up by the end of the week because of the Democrats’ government shutdown.

In a video, the Washington Senator claimed that President Donald Trump is “choosing to let kids go hungry” by refusing to tap billions in a contingency fund that “specifically exists to keep SNAP benefits flowing.” She charged the administration with “betraying hungry kids and families” and referenced a refusal to act despite “billions of dollars just sitting in a fund” that could keep benefits going.

The President cannot, in fact, tap the funding she claims. In fact, during Trump’s first term, Murray fought to stop him from engaging in this exact kind of financial maneuvering, calling it an “egregious use of power.”

Under Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the purse strings. Appropriations for federal spending, which include nutrition programs like SNAP, require congressional authorization and appropriation. Murray’s claim that the President can simply “tap billions” and keep SNAP benefits flowing unilaterally is misleading. The law delegates the spending decision to Congress—not the executive branch acting alone.

SNAP is a federal program funded by money from the U.S. Treasury. Therefore, according to the Constitution, funding for SNAP cannot be spent unless Congress passes a law—an appropriations bill—authorizing that spending.

The way to fund SNAP would be to vote to fund it, as Republicans have attempted. Murray voted against funding SNAP when she voted 13 times to keep the government shutdown by rejecting a continuing resolution (CR). In other words: yes, SNAP benefits and other programs are endangered—but not because of the President’s inaction. Democrats in the legislative branch failed to act. The shutdown was enabled by Murray’s vote.

President Trump—the man who passed the largest cuts to SNAP in history—is CHOOSING to let families go hungry.

He is outright refusing to use an emergency fund to pay SNAP benefits, even though USDA said they would just last month!

Trump needs to keep SNAP running. pic.twitter.com/JUTpNGjX9g

— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) October 27, 2025

Here’s Senator Markwayne Mullins explaining when and why snap benefits will run out !! Sickening!! 😤 pic.twitter.com/8mc3LNoRCd

— Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@KathleenWinche3) October 25, 2025