Mike Johnson CORRECTS Dana Bash on SNAP funding amid shutdown

You all have found ways to pay members of the military, which people understand, and WIC, which people also understand. But why are you drawing the line now on 40 million Americans who literally will not be able to eat?

I reject the premise of the question. I'm not drawing the line. The Democrats are drawing the line. If we had a contingency fund that we could use, that would be done. That ability is not available for SNAP because the contingency fund had to be prior authorized by Congress. Well, they say that's not what the law shows.

No, well that's ridiculous.

And certainly the administration has shown that they are very happy to move money around without Congress saying yes.

No, Dan, it's just simply not true. It's already been adjudicated. When they tried to do that in the first Trump administration, the GAO, for example, determined it was illegal. And the Democrats, when they voted against the clean CR, they voted down that possibility. So it is not legally available to do that. The Democrats have put the American people in this crisis, and they are the ones that The Democrats have put the American people in this crisis, and they are the ones that

have the power to end it.