With food benefits for 1.1 million people set to lapse as soon as Saturday, the Healey administration said it’s sending an extra $4 million to the Bay State’s food banks to keep assistance flowing.

During a news conference at the State House on Thursday, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey continued to argue that the looming lapse in aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which will start on Saturday, was an avoidable crisis.

“This has been created by the president, and he really needs to change it,” Healey said, renewing her call for Republican President Donald Trump to order the U.S. Agriculture Department to release $23 billion in contingency funds that would keep the program going.

Healey also announced Thursday that a donation campaign, coordinated by the United Way

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