On the Tuesday, November 4, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans are now tied up in the government shutdown. USA TODAY's Sarah D. Wire breaks down how we got ...

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a funding package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The shutdown has halted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

The shutdown brought the scale of the federal food aid program into focus and raised questions about how such a rich country could have so many people on nutrition assistance. By David W. Chen The ...

Like the millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, retailers are bracing for the effects of reduced or delayed funding to a program that typically injects ...

Lawyers for roughly two dozen states will head to court Monday to block the Trump administration's attempt to penalize them for making full payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

The Trump administration says it will restart SNAP food benefits but it will pay out only half the amount people normally get. The administration will use money from an Agriculture Department ...

BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is leaving an order in place that requires President Donald Trump’s administration to provide full SNAP food benefits for November amid a U.S. government shutdown ...

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The government shutdown caused a panic among recipients, but the monthly budgeting issues go back 50 years and may get worse. By Meghan McCarron The government-shutdown crisis may be coming to an end, ...

SCOTUS temporarily allowed Trump admin to continue the pause on SNAP funding. The ongoing legal battle over the funding of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the government shutdown ...