For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance the line that Republicans don’t want people to have health insurance.
Referencing a recent court ruling, Colbert declared, “The administration says they couldn't use USDA emergency funds for SNAP, but thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge directed the Trump administration to use those emergency funds to pay for food aid in November. Of course, like all good news during the Trump administration, he managed to make it bad. Because now the administration says they'll only partially fund SNAP, and it could take months. Because the administration declined to dip into other contingency pots to fund the full $8 billion needed to cover SNAP.”
Breaking out his Trump impression, Colbert continued, “"I'm sorry. I stopped listening 'cause I got so hungry after the word 'dip.' Is the dip in the pot?"
Reverting back to his normal voice, Colbert tried to summarize, “So, Trump and his people are sitting on a pile of money while American children go hungry, just so they can put pressure on Democrats.”
No, Republicans have voted for this time and time again. It is Democrats who keep voting to keep the government shut down so they can pressure Republicans into extending their COVID-era expanded Obamacare subsidies. Republicans have voted for this time and time again.
Speaking of which, Kimmel read a post from Trump’s Truth Social account while also referring to Trump by one of his many pejorative nicknames, “The Great Fatsby weighed in on this SNAP funding fiasco on his Twitter platform, Truth Social. He wrote, ‘I do not want Americans to go hungry just because the radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and reopen the government.’”
Kimmel retorted, “That's true. He doesn't want them to go hungry. He just wants them to lose their health insurance. He wants them to eat, but health insurance, no. And today, we learned that the Trump administration is only going to fund about half the monthly food benefits families on SNAP get. He wanted to cut all their benefits, but a judge ruled that they have to pay at least half, and so they're doing that.”
The next time Kimmel makes an affirmative case for people making over 400 percent of the federal poverty level receiving federal benefits will be the first time. He and Colbert cannot defend their position on the merit, so they can only attack Republicans and hope nobody notices what they are actually supporting.
Here are transcripts for the November 3-taped shows:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
11/3/2025
11:38 PM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: The administration says they couldn't use USDA emergency funds for SNAP, but thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge directed the Trump administration to use those emergency funds to pay for food aid in November. Of course, like all good news during the Trump administration, he managed to make it bad. Because now the administration says they'll only partially fund SNAP, and it could take months. Because the administration declined to dip into other contingency pots to fund the full $8 billion needed to cover SNAP. [Trump Voice] "I'm sorry. I stopped listening 'cause I got so hungry after the word 'dip.' Is the dip in the pot?"
So, Trump and his people are sitting on a pile of money while American children go hungry, just so they can put pressure on Democrats.
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ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
11/4/2025
12:00 AM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: The Great Fatsby weighed in on this SNAP funding fiasco on his Twitter platform, Truth Social. He wrote, "I do not want Americans to go hungry just because the radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and re-open the government."
That's true. He doesn't want them to go hungry. He just wants them to lose their health insurance. He wants them to eat, but health insurance, no. And today, we learned that the Trump administration is only going to fund about half the monthly food benefits families on SNAP get. He wanted to cut all their benefits, but a judge ruled that they have to pay at least half, and so they're doing that.
