Schumer, Dems call 'bull----' on Trump administration over food stamp shutdown threat

Senate Democrats railed against Republicans and the Trump administration’s argument that the well had run dry on federal food stamp benefits given that President Donald Trump funded the program during the last shutdown.Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned in a memo that because of the ongoing shutdown and lack of appropriations, funding for food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), would run out by Nov. 1.Despite there being an emergency contingency fund of roughly $5 billion, the USDA argued that the emergency funding was not "lega