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Nearly 42 million Americans and their families who rely on federal food assistance will not receive aid on November 1 without urgent funding from Congress, according to Donald Trump’s administration.
A notice on the Department of Agriculture’s website claims “the well has run dry” for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — and explicitly blames Senate Democrats for the ongoing impasse in Congress over a temporary funding measure that would end the federal government shutdown, which is now stretching into a fifth week.
The message, echoing the recent wave of partisan attacks on government websites, states “there will be no benefits” November 1.
The Trump administration also does not plan to tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to keep benefits running into next month — marking a reversal from the USDA’s position just weeks earlier.
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