States are sounding the alarm that unless the government shutdown ends soon, millions of people could see their next food assistance benefits delayed or disappear.

The federal anti-hunger program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is at risk of running out of funding in many states as soon as next month, leaving more than 40 million people uncertain about how they'll put food on the table.

"I will suffer and many like me will suffer," said Anita Vasquez, 71, a homebound senior citizen in Manhattan, New York, told Scripps News. "I'm not going to say that I'm gonna die, but I would have to be so tight with my money."

"I don't know how I'm going to survive for right now," Leslie Lugo, 37, a disabled job-seeker in Long Island, said. "Everything's getting so expensive and you

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