Protesters rally at the State House, Oct. 28, days before the Trump administration was poised to freeze SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown. Two federal judges ruled, Oct. 31, that the Trump ...

Days after thousands of Tennessee families lost monthly federal food benefits, Gov. Bill Lee announced he would direct $5 million in state funding to food banks ... the Trump administration announced ...

Sonoma County supervisors approved up to $1 million in funding for Redwood Empire Food Bank to help tens of thousands of residents going without their full CalFresh benefits amid the ongoing ...

Press secretary Karoline Levitt said the Trump administration continues to pay out SNAP funding using contingency funding.

“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 ...

President Donald Trump's administration is under court orders to keep the nation's largest food program running.

Numerous programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, have run out of funding for November.

Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the uncertainty and lapse in benefits in states across the country.

Local food pantries are bracing for an increase in demand due to uncertainty over federal food assistance, as the USDA will ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, had planned to freeze payments starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it ...

As Congress is set to break the record this week for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, two federal judges ...

One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It ...