Schumer Shutdown: John Fetterman Blasts His Fellow Democrats for 'Playing Chicken' With SNAP Benefits
By: Amy Curtis
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The Democrats have voted more than a dozen times to block a Continuing Resolution (CR) that would reopen the government, and they're not shy about saying why they want the Schumer Shutdown to drag on. Rep. Katherine Clark (MA-05), as well as Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have all said their party plans to use the suffering of Americans as political leverage in their shutdown battle against President Trump.
This clearly means they're fine with 40 million people losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on November 1, because they hope to use people's hunger (and the uptick in protests and crime) as a political cudgel.
But John Fetterman, the last sane Democrat, is calling out his party for "playing chicken" with the food security of tens of millions of people.
As a committed Democrat, I'm dismayed my party is playing chicken with the food security of 42M Americans.
I reject a political gamble that exposes a vulnerable constituency to widespread deprivation and chaos.
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) October 28, 2025
Fetterman is one of three Democrats who have consistently voted with Republicans to reopen the government. On October 24, he was one of the Democrats who voted in favor of a bill to pay some government employees (his fellow Democrats blocked that, too).
He's consistently called on his fellow Democrats to vote for the CR, reopen the government, and then negotiate a new budget.
Shut our government down and America loses.
2 MILLION Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP to feed their families.
For me, it's hungry Americans over party.
Paying our military over party.
Paying Capitol Police and federal workers over party.
I choose country over party. pic.twitter.com/JQbGkzYdw8
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) October 22, 2025
"I choose country over party," Fetterman said.
Fresh off the latest "No Kings" rally, Democrats are demanding that President Trump ignore federal law and continue funding SNAP. Several Democrats, including Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, are suing the administration to force it to circumvent the law to fund the program.
BREAKING: I'm suing the Trump administration to prevent them from suspending SNAP benefits. I will not allow Trump to use hungry children as bargaining chips.
USDA has a multi-billion dollar contingency fund intended to keep programs like SNAP running. They must use it. pic.twitter.com/OR7ydSDZdn
— Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) October 28, 2025
The White House has said repeatedly that it cannot do it. It appears the Democrats are hoping the optics of a court ordering the Trump administration to fund SNAP in contradiction to federal law will give them an advantage in this fight.
They have spent the past month trying, and failing, to blame Republicans for the Schumer Shutdown after all. Even CNN admitted yesterday that the Schumer Shutdown hasn't hurt Republicans and they've even made gains in their approval ratings. Democrats, on the other hand, are not — they're only up by three points this time around (compared to 11 in Trump's first term).
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So let me get this straight. The dimwits that have been shrieking that Trump is doing illegal stuff is demanding he do illegal stuff because they can't do the right thing and vote on a CR they've voted on 13 times already?
AND those dimwits expect to be taken even remotely seriously?
Let's see, we had a patriotic American step up to pay the Military, i wonder if Gates, Soros or any one of the liberal jackasses will step up and write a check to cover snap benefits? Worthless takers are their base; will they support them?
The government shutdown has gotten so bad that people naturally blame Republicans. What's that tell ya?
That there are so many people who don't know or understand what the requirements are and are running off emotion not facts.
It's a great gig if you can pull it off, when republicans control the house and Senate, we hear they hold all the power and are responsible, when the democrats hold the house and Senate, republicans are obstructionist and are responsible, the only thing this illustrates is that democrats are either the stupidest voters or the biggest hypocrites, and neither one is good for the country.
They're still going to vote.
The question is why are Republicans blamed right out of the chute? It doesn't matter whose at fault, Republicans get blamed. Is it a messaging problem? Maybe. Is it a priorities problem? Likely. Is a problem with the Republican brand. Definitely.
Dems will make Fetterman pay for putting country above party. They will primary him out. Tells alot about where the party stands at this point.
It’s odd given how many illegal aliens, of whom welfare they care more about than any others, are on welfare programs like snap,
Chris murphy said the quiet part out loud.
It's funny how they are now all coming out and admitting what we've known all along - they don't care about those who put them in office.
The sad part is there are still people dumb enough to vote for them.