Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order direct $20 million toward food banks to mitigate the impact of the anticipated stoppage of federal funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown.

“The Trump Administration wants to let tens of millions of Americans go hungry, a failure in leadership and abdication of our responsibility as Americans to take care of each other,” Pritzker said in a news release. “Illinois families, kids, seniors, and people with disabilities will now go without food benefits because President Trump wants to use food assistance as a political bargaining chip. I am directing the state government to work together with food banks, local grocers, and other community organizations and help provi

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