Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing their federal food stamp benefits? None.

There was one good reason for this: There was no federal food stamp program at that time.

Now, America is a nation where politicians in both parties argued during this year's government shutdown that politicians in the other party were guilty of depriving people of receiving food stamp benefits from the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

House Speaker Mike Johnson held a press conference on the last day of October in which he blamed Senate Democrats for blocking funding for the food stamp program by refusing to approve a continuing resolution to fund the government.

"If there was any way to fund SNAP during the Democrat shutdown, you can be assured that your commander in chief would do it," said Johnson. "But we are now reaching a breaking point thanks to Democrats voting no on government funding, now, 14 different times.

"SNAP benefits for millions of Americans are drying up," Johnson said. "It's about one in eight people in this country who rely upon this to literally put food on their table. And the blame for this lies 100% with the senators sitting over there in the Democrat Party.

"And now I want you to think about that," said Johnson. "You're going to have real people, real families, you're going to have children who will go hungry beginning this weekend when those resources dry........

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