As nonprofits, businesses, and individuals across northern Illinois prepared for the uncertainty surrounding SNAP, President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund the food assistance program.

The announcement followed a pair of judges’ rulings that required the government to keep the program running, The Associated Press reported .

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Ahead of the ruling, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order allocating $20 million in state funding as a stopgap measure to support Illinois’s seven food banks, which supply more than 2,600 food pantries across the state, Capitol News Illinois reported .

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton called the funding “a drop in the buck

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