A Trump administration official got in a fiery back and forth over President Donald Trump's refusal to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, blaming "your radical people."
The heat started after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and CNN anchor Pamela Brown discussed the government shutdown and SNAP benefits and Rollins' claims that "SNAP is a broken program."
"SNAP is full of corruption," Rollins said. "We found 186,000 dead people. We asked for the SNAP data earlier this year. It has never been turned over to the federal government before. We had 29 states turn it over, mostly red states, 21 states said, 'no, thank you.' We're in litigation from just those 29 states. We have found again, almost 200,000 dead people. It's just it's remarkable."
Brown cut off Rollins, saying "but I just want to get back on track here because I understand you're putting the blame on... Democrats."
Rollins tried to defend Trump, who she said didn't believe the shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — would last as long as it did.
Then Brown pointed to the federal judge in Rhode Island who ordered the Trump administration to fund the program.
"That judge in Rhode Island is the largest democrat donor," Rollins claimed.
Brown and Rollins then started to talk over each other, raising their voices.
"No, no, let's look at the facts," Brown interjected.
But Rollins didn't back down.
"And so for you guys and the left and the Democrats and your radical people who say, 'Oh, just move money around, this one judge in Rhode Island is going to completely upend the whole entire Constitution and how we fund these programs in America is truly insane," Rollins said. "And we would lose our country in a second if we allowed one judge in Rhode Island, without question, to say, move that money there, move that money here."