On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish left little doubt as to which occasion’s method to ending the federal government shutdown she favored.
She performed clips of two senators commenting on the upcoming halt of SNAP [food stamp] advantages. First was Elizabeth Warren, claiming that President Trump “is telling 15 million hungry kids: eat dust.”
Then there was a clip of Republican John Thune, the Senate Majority Chief, saying that “SNAP recipients should not go with out meals. And we have tried to try this 13 instances. You [Democrats] voted no 13 instances.”
Thune’s level was that Senate Democrats have voted no 13 instances on a unbroken decision that might have reopened the federal government, thereby funding the SNAP program.
Did Cornish criticize Warren for her slanderous assertion that President Trump is telling thousands and thousands of hungry kids to eat dust? Or did the CNN host level out that Democrats voted 13 instances for persevering with resolutions through the Biden administration?
No. Cornish’s suggestion was that Republicans drop their persevering with decision and “make a take care of the Democrats on the factor they need.” And what the Democrats need above all are continued Obamacare subsidies — one thing that might have the impact of offering free well being care to unlawful aliens.
And, like Warren, Cornish even tried to troll President Trump, saying that her resolution is “actually the artwork of the deal.”
Word: Nobody would need kids to eat dust. And in terms of delicacies, Warren is sort of the connoisseur. Again in her days as a Native American, two of the “particular recipes handed down by the 5 Tribes households” that she submitted to the ” Pow Wow Chow” cookbook had been equivalent to ones within the New York Occasions that got here from got here from Le Pavillon, a super-high-end French restaurant in Manhattan! Who knew that the Path of Tears handed by Park Avenue?
This is the transcript.
CNN This Morning
10/30/25
6:12 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: In simply two days, 42 million People could possibly be dealing with a starvation disaster. That features 16 million kids who may get up Saturday with little or no meals on the desk.
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ELIZABETH WARREN: Donald Trump has made the choice to let individuals throughout this nation go hungry. Trump is telling 15 million hungry kids: eat dust.
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CORNISH: With the clock ticking on SNAP advantages, the stress degree is rising in congress. Even the mild-mannered Senate majority chief is feeling the warmth.
JOHN THUNE: SNAP recipients should not go with out meals. Folks ought to be getting paid on this nation. And we have tried to try this 13 instances. You [pointing at Democrat side of Senate floor] voted no 13 instances.
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CORNISH: It’s value saying, I do know we’re saying they may have handed a clear CR, there’s a vote. There may be additionally one other different, simply to say it out loud, which is you make a take care of the Democrats on the factor they need.
CARI CHAMPION: Yeah!
CORNISH: I am solely saying that as a result of we’re presenting the viewers with only one possibility, clear CR or nothing. When it’s actually the artwork of the deal to determine what the opposite facet may need and compromise. And possibly not everybody could be glad, ideally, frankly, however one thing would get finished.
