AS I WRITE this column, we are one month into the Republican shutdown, and Granite Staters are seeing SNAP benefits lapse and health care premiums more than double. Our naval ...

Mohave County leaders will vote Monday on whether to tap local contingency funds to keep food assistance flowing to more than 5,800 low-income mothers and children as federal WIC funding runs out due ...

Minnesota will use contingency funds for food shelf program as SNAP benefits are expected to run out Minnesota governor Tim Walz announced $4M in contingency funds will be reallocated to food shelf ...

A coalition of more than two dozen Democratic attorneys general and governors are suing the Trump administration over its decision to suspend federal food benefits during the government shutdown. The ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, announced on Monday that around $5 billion in contingency funds are "not legally available" to cover Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP ...

A SNAP benefits sign at a north Phoenix convenience store. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and 22 attorneys general from other states are demanding answers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

State’s Newsroom: “But USDA’s Sept. 30 contingency plan contradicts that and appears to greenlight the use of SNAP’s contingency fund during a lapse in funding.” October 27, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — ...

The Trump Administration recently claimed that SNAP benefits are not available for November 2025 because SNAP’s “contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.” [1] This stands ...

The Trump administration is rejecting the idea of using roughly US$5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown, according to a Department of ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is rejecting the idea of using roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown, according to a ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) - As the government shutdown continues, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month. A memo obtained by ...