SNAP has about $6 billion in the contingency fund — short of the roughly $9 billion needed to cover a full month of the ...

A now-deleted contingency plan showed the U.S. Department of Agriculture once expected to keep food assistance funded during ...

Vermont lawmakers are working on contingency plans for food assistance benefits if the USDA does not issue benefits in ...

The 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will go without their benefits come ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), said there ...

More than 1 million people across Massachusetts rely on SNAP assistance, a program formerly known as food stamps. Our map ...

The well has run dry,” a notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reads, warning the federal government will not be ...

October 27, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to news that the Trump administration is refusing to use USDA contingency funds to pay for November SNAP benefits -- a move that contradicts USDA’s ...

It’s Day 27 of the government shutdown, and for many, worries over how they will feed their families are increasing.

The lawsuit will challenge a Trump administration decision not to tap a key SNAP contingency fund amid the shutdown.

Politico reports that insiders believe the contingency plan is a pressure tactic to push reluctant member states to move faster on a favored scheme to use frozen Russian assets to fund Kyiv’s defense.

The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP ...