The action comes two days after states sued the federal agency that administers SNAP benefits. Funds were set to stop flowing Saturday.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects calls to tap state funds to keep food assistance flowing as federal government shutdown enters its fourth week.

The state is making another infusion of emergency food aid as 3 million New Yorkers face the looming expiration of nutrition assistance for the first time since the federal program began. The state is allocating $65 million to the state’s nutrition and farm-to-foodbank programs under a new emergency declaration,

President Donald Trump wants to hear from the courts how to fund SNAP food aid benefits for needy Americans and payments could flow by Wednesday as ordered by a U.S. judge, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday.

Hundreds of people queued for food assistance at a central Texas high school on Saturday, November 1, as millions across America lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Due to the government shutdown,

Federal food assistance programs like SNAP benefits are set to expire Saturday as lawmakers remain at odds over funding the government. However, some judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue funding the program.

Federal rulings Friday appeared to keep the SNAP aid food program funded for now. But whether it would be funded fully or partially, and how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded after the ruling,