GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — If the government shutdown continues, funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, will be depleted.

“There will not be funds available for any SNAP benefits to current recipients for November,” said Michelle Ness, the executive director at PRISM.

SNAP is a federal program. She said that people losing SNAP benefits will increase the responsibility for food shelves.

“We expect more people to be coming in, in even more crisis,” she said. “We want to try to help make up that difference. The biggest challenge is funds and food. We need food.”

Governor Tim Walz said earlier this week, the state stopped processing SNAP applications because of the shutdown.

“It’s here. It’s real. We can’t backfill that at the state level; it’s federal pr

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