Texas, offered a pointed analogy Wednesday when asked about Democrats blaming President Donald Trump for the impending cutoff of federal nutrition assistance due to the government shutdown. Cornyn compared Democrats to the proverbial kid who murders his parents,

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides government assistance to bring food and other necessities to low-income households.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) has co-sponsored the Keep SNAP Funded Act. According to the Office of John Cornyn, the Act would appropriate full, necessary funding to provide uninterrupted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to 3.

The potential SNAP benefit delay could increase growing hunger crisis in Texas, a state which has the highest population of food insecure people in the U.S.

The ongoing shutdown means more than $600M per month won’t go to millions of Texas SNAP beneficiaries who pump that money into the state economy.

As the government shutdown continues, hundreds of thousands of Central Texans will soon lose their SNAP benefits.

Several hundred thousand people in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley are set to lose food stamps on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown.