WASHINGTON DC (KOLO) - U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen is calling on the Trump administration to release SNAP funds for the month of November.

Rosen and other Dem colleagues sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins urging the department to release billions in funding for the program.

“We were deeply disturbed to hear that the USDA has instructed states to stop processing SNAP benefits for November and were surprised by your recent comments that the program will ‘run out of money in two weeks.’ In fact, the USDA has several tools available which would enable SNAP benefits to be paid through or close to the end of November,” the Senators wrote.

“In the event that more resources are needed than what is available in contingency funding, the USDA should explore all legal means

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