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Today's episode presents a Democratic lawmaker roundtable on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food assistance program covering low-income folks' groceries.
Although President Donald Trump was ordered to cover SNAP with $5.25 billion during the federal government shutdown, some Democrats in Michigan still think a state-level emergency food assistance fund is necessary.
MIRS gets updates from Democratic state Reps. Betsy Coffia of Traverse City and Tonya Myers Phillips of Detroit on why they think Michigan needs to be creating funding for emergency food aid. They also talk about issues in their districts they believe aren't getting enough attention, as well as whether the window for bipartisan collaboration in Lansing is getting smaller or larger (4:38).
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Today's episode presents a Democratic lawmaker roundtable on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the food assistance program covering low-income folks' groceries.
Although President Donald Trump was ordered to cover SNAP with $5.25 billion during the federal government shutdown, some Democrats in Michigan still think a state-level emergency food assistance fund is necessary.
MIRS gets updates from Democratic state Reps. Betsy Coffia of Traverse City and Tonya Myers Phillips of Detroit on why they think Michigan needs to be creating funding for emergency food aid. They also talk about issues in their districts they believe aren't getting enough attention, as well as whether the window for bipartisan collaboration in Lansing is getting smaller or larger (4:38).

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