OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown joined a coalition of other attorneys general and governors in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for suspending the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) .

On Friday, a USDA memo showed that the Trump administration will reject the idea of using roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown.

On October 1, the new federal fiscal year began without an appropriation by Congress to fund the federal government, creating a “government shutdown.” On October 10, USDA sent a letter to state SNAP agencies saying that if the shutdown continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for the approximately 42 million

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