(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to withhold critical food aid until the government shutdown is over, despite his administration’s assertion to a court earlier this week that it ...
According to additional guidance distributed by USDA, a household of two people in most states, including Montana, would be ...
Gov. Ned Lamont, who has been under pressure to more forcefully respond to federal cuts in social services, said Monday he ...
The federal Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) that helps low-income New Yorkers afford heating and cooling has been indefinitely delayed due to the ongoing government shutdown, leaving 1.5 ...
“Due to the limited availability of Federal funding and orders from two Federal courts, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is reducing SNAP maximum allotments to 50 percent,” the USDA said, adding ...
The federal food-aid safety net is facing serious disruption. The immediate future is uncertain for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps roughly one in eight Americans put ...
None of this is normal. Food-stamp benefits have never been cut like this in the current program’s more-than-60-year history.
The president suggested earlier in the day that he would withhold food stamp payments despite a court order mandating the ...
While the political and legal wrangling continues, the bottom line for thousands of families, including the 1 in 20 in Utah who rely on food stamps for at least part of their food, is uncertainty ...
The Trump administration said Nov. 3 that it planned to partially fund food aid for millions of Americans after two judges ...
After widespread concern over the fate of SNAP-recipients during the government shutdown, the Trump administration will ...
The U.S. government pays out $100 billion a year in food assistance to 42 million Americans through the Supplemental ...