Oh, I know.
They love chips.
Early Monday, post-reporter Molly Hennessey-Fisk met 59-year-old Paula Jones.
Paula was with her two-year-old granddaughter at a family dollar in Houston, Texas.
And so what were you shopping for today?
What do you call this?
Coffee, Thai Pots, and chips.
And would snap you with that?
Snapper covering like chips and also a cold coffee.
Paula told Molly that she makes $12 per hour in her job as a customer service representative.
She relies on SNAP benefits to buy her groceries.
That's the federal program for food assistance, formerly known as food stamps.
And these SNAP funds usually allow Paula to stock up for the month.
So what would you normally normally get at the beginning of the month?
Oh, bread, eggs, milk, chicken, fish, vegetables.
All the things that we like to eat.
Like staples, like the basics.
Because you're getting like the foundation of your diet.
But those funds didn't come in for Paula over the weekend like they normally do.
SNAP technically ran out of money over the weekend because of the Trump administration's refusal to release the funding during the federal government shutdown.