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Letters to the Editor: Trump is 'using hunger as a weapon' in government shutdown

"Since the basic political disagreement responsible for the government shutdown is whether health care insurance subsidies will be ended, what Trump is telling millions of poor and working-class Americans is that if they want food, they must give up health care," an L.A. Times reader writes.

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