The US government's Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Sunday posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out on 1 November, raising the stakes for families nationwide as the government shutdown drags on.
The new notice comes after the Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as SNAP, flowing into November.
“Bottom line, the well has run dry,” the USDA notice says.
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