Department of agriculture will not use agency contingency funds to pay for food aid benefits set to lapse in november during the federal. The agriculture department says it can't use contingency funds to pay for food stamps during the government shutdown — and that states won't be reimbursed if they cover the expenses on their own, according to a new memo obtained by axios. The trump administration says it will not use emergency funds to send out federal food aid at the beginning of november, blaming democrats for not working to reopen the government.
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More than two dozen democratic state leaders are suing the department of agriculture after the trump administration said it would not use contingency funds to pay snap benefits during the shutdown.
Department of agriculture (usda) to distribute the emergency funds “timely or as soon as possible” and provide an update to the court by monday.
The trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to pay for federal food benefits, imperiling benefits starting nov 1 for nearly 42 million americans who rely on the nation’s largest. Washington (ap) — 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 department of agriculture memo that surfaced friday.
