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... SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is the country's largest anti-hunger program.
Stephanie Rogers at her mother's home outside Denver, where she and her two daughters now live. Rogers has dipped into her retirement to help the family get through the federal shutdown.

"The vast majority are children, working people, older Americans, veterans and people with disabilities," Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America, says of food stamp recipients. "If the SNAP program shuts down, we will have the most mass hunger suffering we've had in America since the Great Depression." ...

Food aid advocates say USDA can and should keep funding SNAP. "SNAP still has billions of dollars in what are called contingency reserves," says Katie Bergh, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan research and policy institute. That wouldn't cover the entire amount, but she says the agency could legally transfer additional funds, as they've done for the WIC nutrition program. In fact, Bergh argues USDA has a legal obligation to fund SNAP since it's an entitlement program.

Department officials did not respond to an NPR query about whether there is such a legal obligation.

The origins of U.S. food benefits go back to the Great Depression. If funding does lapse next month, Bergh says, "We would be in uncharted territory." ...

@#6

Troll much?

... In just over a week, nearly 42 million people in the U.S. who get federal food assistance are in danger of seeing their benefits disappear because of the ongoing federal shutdown. ...

Yet, build a new shrine for Pres Trump.

Why does Pres Trump seem to be so "I don't care" about the shutdown?

Is it something he wants to happen?

@#10 ... There's nothing in it for him either way, so why should he? ...

I disagree.

There is something in it for him to continue the shutdown ... a crippled Federal government.

Which seems to be exactly what he, and Project 2025, were aiming for.

So, with a shutdown Pres Trump can enable those parts of government that he likes, and disable those parts he dislikes.

Just like a dictator.

imo, Pres Trump wants the shutdown to continue, if not permanently.

@#11 ... So, with a shutdown Pres Trump can enable those parts of government that he likes, and disable those parts he dislikes.

Just like a dictator. ...

as a side comment, Spkr Johnson seems to be quite supportive of this.

@#13 ... He had that before the shutdown ...

I'm not convinced of that.

@#15 ... Do you have a long list of his pet projects the non-crippled US government stopped him from doing? ...

For starters, I doubt if Pres Trump's shutdown is halting any of his pet projects.

Indeed, his comments that he seems to want to eliminate projects in blue states seem to run counter to that view.