LANSING, Mich. — Senate Republican Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, on Wednesday issued the following statement in response to Senate Democrats’ misdirected resolution on SNAP benefits:
“If Democrats in the Michigan Senate were serious about making sure residents receive SNAP benefits next month, they would be urging their fellow Democrat U.S. senators to open the government and stop using hungry American citizens as leverage for their radical left agenda and handouts for illegal immigrants.
“Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters have voted 13 times to keep the federal government shut down. Thirteen times, they have chosen blind loyalty to radical party leadership over doing what’s right for the Michiganders they were elected to serve. Thirteen times, they’ve refused to do the right thing and move the Senate toward the 60 votes needed to reopen the government. Thirteen times, they’ve sided with illegal aliens instead of the American people. It’s shameful and disgusting.
“It’s time for Slotkin, Peters and the rest of the D.C. Democrats to stop obstructing the funding of our federal government. Stop holding hardworking Americans hostage and using hungry citizens as pawns to protect your failed radical ideas like taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens. It’s time to put America and its citizens first and end the Democrat shutdown.”
