People continue to line up at food banks across the nation despite looming concerns over federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The program supports about 40 million people with food assistance, but federal support will dry up with the Nov. 1 funding lapse caused by the ongoing government shutdown.

Food banks and pantries were already struggling after federal program cuts this year, but now they’re bracing for a tsunami of hungry people if a pause in federal food aid to low-income people kicks in this weekend.

Ladonna Sprinkle and her husband, a veteran, rely on WIC, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, to supplement their family's pantry.

""With the government shutdown, we are nervous about a lot of different things," said Sprinkle, a mother of five. "With SNAP being one of the things that they are eliminating, we don't know what else can be eliminated."

Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening the government as they demand that Republicans negotiate with them to extend expiring health care subsidies. But they pushed for expedited approval of legislation to continue funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in the meantime.

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