A New Jersey community kitchen has seen record-breaking crowds with many more people to feed ahead of the lapse in funding for SNAP benefits.

Cathedral Kitchen in Camden, New Jersey, regularly sees a spike in visits toward the end of the month, as people who collect benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP — may run out or run low as they wait for their EBT cards to be refilled.

Due to the government shutdown, which is on its 29th day, people who collect SNAP have been notified that the food aid service will not be funded on Nov. 1 . The announcement spurred a lawsuit from 25 states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and calls for President Trump's administration to tap into contingency funds to keep SNAP dollars flowing into Novembe

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