"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1, 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."
"That program helps about 1 in every 8 Americans buy groceries. RELATED: Bay Area food banks wrestle with taking California National Guard help Bottom line, the well has run dry, the USDA notice says. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. The shutdown, which began Oct. 1, is now the second-longest on record."
The USDA posted a notice that federal food aid will not be issued on Nov. 1 as contingency funds will not be used to continue SNAP benefits into November. SNAP helps about one in eight Americans purchase groceries, and benefits for this month were preserved by prior administrative steps. Democratic requests to use contingency funds were denied based on a USDA memo stating those funds are legally reserved for disasters. The government shutdown began Oct. 1 and is now the second-longest, and the cutoff would widen the shutdown’s impact unless a political resolution occurs soon.
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