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A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to immediately distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, one day before payments were set to lapse amid the ongoing government shutdown. U.S. District Judge John McConnell ruled from the bench that the USDA must use …

More than 42 million low-income Americans are at risk of losing food assistance Nov. 1 if the government shutdown continues. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which operates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has about $6 billion in a multi-year contingency fund. That’s short of the roughly $9 billion …