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Speaker 1: Among the hundreds and hundreds of frozen turkeys. Here at

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Speaker 1: the twentieth Annual Chain of Giving, Governor Healey addressed the

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Speaker 1: elephant in the room.

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Speaker 2: Look, I just I'll be really direct about things.

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Speaker 3: What's happening right now in our country, and President Trump's

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Speaker 3: decision to withhold SNAP benefits is unconscionable.

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Speaker 1: She took part in the Greater Boston Food Banks human

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Speaker 1: chain unloading turkeys from a semi trailer, though a dark

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Speaker 1: cloud loomed over the entire event.

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Speaker 4: I hope the shutdown ends, and I hope the President

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Speaker 4: does what he's been ordered to do already, which is

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Speaker 4: to send these SNAP benefits along. Right He's sitting on

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Speaker 4: tens of millions.

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Speaker 2: Of dollars that could be going out to states right now.

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Speaker 1: She's encouraging others to donate money or their time to

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Speaker 1: local food pantries as demand goes up in the South End.

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Speaker 1: James Rojas w b Z Boston's Snooze Radio