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President Donald Trump’s administration faces Monday deadlines to tell two federal judges whether it will use emergency reserves to fully fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, during the government shutdown .

The U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s

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