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SNAP Funding Set to Expire, as States Try to Fill Gaps
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7:35Now PlayingVermont Democratic Representative Becca Balint said that her state can only backfill SNAP benefits for a limited period of time and pinned the blame on the Trump administration for making 'the choice' to not use contingency funds to keep the program going.
42 million Americans could see their food assistance cut off within days as the US government shutdown stretches toward its second month, threatening to deepen economic pain and test Washington’s resolve in one of the longest funding lapses in US history.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — better known as SNAP or food stamps — will run out of federal money Saturday if Congress doesn’t act. Food banks are bracing for surging demand and states are invoking emergency measures as lawmakers trade blame and debate whether to approve a narrow funding bill or reopen the entire government.
“You’re going to have real people, real families, you’re going to have children who will go hungry beginning this weekend when those resources dry up,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters Friday.
Democrats have said the Trump administration has the legal authority to continue funding food aid, but is choosing not to do so.
“They are illegally withholding food from 42 million Americans and it is shameful,” Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, said Friday.
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