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Advocates rallied in Salt Lake City urging continued SNAP funding as benefits face suspension.

Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to keep funding SNAP amid the government shutdown.

Utah leaders committed $4 million to food banks.

SALT LAKE CITY — About two dozen people rallied Friday afternoon to urge continued funding for food assistance as SNAP benefits for thousands of Utah families are about to be suspended.

The rally on Halloween outside the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City was dubbed "Hunger is Scary." It came just hours after two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to keep paying funding the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly known as food stamps.

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