PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- On Tuesday, more than two dozen states, including Pennsylvania , New Jersey and Delaware , filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts, suing the Trump administration over the impending loss of SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown.

About 42 million Americans are poised to lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when federal funding comes to a halt on Nov. 1. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said it would not use emergency funds to give a lifeline to program funding. The states are seeking to have the court order USDA to use all available funds to keep SNAP benefits funded in November.

"Suspending SNAP benefits in these circumstances is both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure A

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