SEATTLE — At 30 weeks pregnant, Stephanie Harris is stretching every dollar. She left her social-work job to go back to school and turned to SNAP to feed her family of three kids, with a fourth on the way.

Two federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP — the nation's largest food-aid program — using contingency funds during the ongoing government shutdown. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has until the end of the day Monday to decide whether it will fully or partially pay November benefits, leaving families and food banks across Washington waiting.

"It made me feel like I was gonna need to stop going to school and find a job or something because at 30 weeks pregnant, who's even going to hire me?" Harris said. "I just take it day by day and fee

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