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Utah leaders pledge up to $4M for food banks as SNAP payments end due to shutdown.

Gov. Spencer Cox criticized federal inaction urging community support for food assistance programs.

Business and community leaders donated $250,000 to Utah's Child Nutrition Program to aid school meal deficits.

SALT LAKE CITY — State leaders will give up to $4 million to Utah food banks in the coming weeks as tens of thousands of Utahns are set to lose nutritional food assistance due to the federal government shutdown.

Several business and community leaders also announced a donation to help cover school meals in several districts with high school lunch debt.

Blaming congressional Democrats for "playing political games," Gov. Spencer Cox and top Republican

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