Shutdown: CNN’s Audie Cornish Pushes Republicans to Cave to Democrat Demands
31st October 2025
On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish left little doubt as to which party’s approach to ending the government shutdown she favored.
She played clips of two senators commenting on the impending halt of SNAP [food stamp] benefits. First was Elizabeth Warren, claiming that President Trump “is telling 15 million hungry children: eat dirt.”
Then there was a clip of Republican John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, saying that “SNAP recipients shouldn’t go without food. And we’ve tried to do that 13 times. You [Democrats] voted no 13 times.”
Thune’s point was that Senate Democrats have voted no 13 times on a continuing resolution that would have reopened the government, thereby funding the SNAP program.
Did Cornish criticize Warren for her slanderous assertion that President Trump is telling millions of hungry children to eat dirt? Or did the CNN host point out that Democrats voted 13 times for continuing resolutions during the Biden administration?