the Department of Agriculture until Monday to report whether it could “authorize only reduced SNAP benefits” using money set aside to respond to natural disasters “or to authorize full SNAP benefits” using the emergency money and “additional available funds.”
Leaders of 25 Democratic-run states and the District of Columbia sued the USDA Tuesday after the executive agency warned that the “well has run dry” for SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, due to the ongoing shutdown.
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Saturday will mark the first lapse in federal SNAP funding for 60 years, with the states arguing the Trump administration was violating the Food and Nutrition Act, which requires that “assistance under this program shall be furnished to all eligible households.”
Earlier Friday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins insisted to