US EditionMillions of Americans face potential food insecurity as SNAP funding stalls
The Trump administration declined to use $5 billion in contingency funds for SNAP, affecting 1 in 8 Americans during the month-long government shutdown.
- Federal agencies say SNAP payments will pause starting next month after the Trump administration declined to use contingency funds amid the ongoing government shutdown.
- The Department of Agriculture's memo clarified contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits and are reserved for disaster areas to enable quick resource deployment.
- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says one in 8 Americans rely on SNAP and points to billions in contingency reserves and the roughly $5 billion contingency fund.
- Some states have pledged to keep benefits flowing, raising concerns across states governed by both political parties amid the ongoing government shutdown nearing a month.
- Legal questions surround not tapping contingency funds as Democratic lawmakers urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to use them for November benefits, while the USDA post states `The well has run dry`.
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Hobbs calls Trump’s SNAP reversal ‘appalling’ as 923k Arizonans face loss of food aid
Produce at a Virginia grocery store in 2011. (Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Department of Agriculture)Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging the Trump administration to use a $6 billion contingency fund to avoid cutting off federal food assistance to more than 923,000 Arizonans and 42 million Americans at the end of the week. Hobbs joins other prominent Arizona Democrats in calling out President Donald Trump, along with congressional Republicans, for failing t…
Hobbs urges Trump Administration to release $6 billion for food assistance
PHOENIX, Ariz. (KVOA) - Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging the Trump administration to release $6 billion from the SNAP contingency fund to prevent nearly one million Arizonans from losing food assistance on Nov. 1.
Facing loss of SNAP, CT increases funding for Foodshare
Connecticut’s first steps to mitigate the fast-approaching suspension of a federally funded food assistance program will be a $3 million emergency grant to nonprofit Connecticut Foodshare and an outreach campaign informing recipients of their nearest food pantry, Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday. The partial federal government shutdown forced by the inability of Congress to pass even a temporary spending measure will enter its second month on Saturda…
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