JD Vance drops ominous message for Americans: ‘Suffering is going to get a lot worse’

Vice President JD Vance had a grim comment on Tuesday amid the looming five-week government shutdown as time was running out on funding SNAP benefits.

A reporter asked Vance about the mounting concerns that an estimated 42 million Americans could lose their benefits and go hungry, while the federal government has invested billions in the military and law enforcement.

"If you go back to previous government shutdowns, what has happened is that sometimes the president has tried to make the shutdown as painful as possible on the American people," Vance said. "I give the president of the United States great credit, and the entire team, for trying to make this as painless as possible."

Vance praised President Donald Trump and the administration, while claiming Democrats were solely to blame for the stalemate impacting American voters.

"The unfortunate reality, and we're starting to see this with our aviation industry, we're going to find out the hard way with SNAP benefits," Vance said. "The American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going to get a lot worse. Not because the president of the United States has failed to make the shutdown painless, he's tried to do everything that he can to make it as un-painless as possible. The reason that pain is coming and the reason it's building is because we're not passing a clean bill to reopen the government."

Senate Republicans were planning to propose a solution with Democrats over funding the Department of Homeland Security and end the partial shutdown, according to reports on Tuesday. It's unclear if Senate Democrats would agree to the proposal.

Democrats have demanded that immigration raids require judicial warrants, and Sen. John Hoeven (R-SD) told The New York Times that the suggested compromise would not include this concession.