As Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – America's biggest food aid program for low-income, unemployed Americans – faces funding uncertainty, sparking fears of starting a hunger crisis amid the ongoing government shutdown, two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to continue the funding using emergency reserve – two federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ruled.

The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net – and it costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

The funding freeze has been planned from November 1, a month after the US government shutdown came into effect.

November 1, Saturday, will mark the first-ever lapse in the SNAP.

In Rhode Island, US District Judge John J. McConnell ruled tah

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