KEIZER, Ore. (KPTV) - Nearly 800,000 Oregonians who rely on federal food assistance lost SNAP funds this weekend due to the government shutdown.

The Trump administration said Monday they would allocate contingency funds to partially distribute those benefits, but families across the metro are struggling as they start their first week without that support.

Samantha Watts, a single mother of five children ages 2 to 12, faces impossible choices without her monthly SNAP benefits.

“Do I pay rent and keep a house over our head? Do I starve?” Watts said.

Watts works full-time but lives paycheck to paycheck. She left a domestic violence situation, lived in a shelter and recently moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Keizer shared by the family of six.

She has been receiving SNAP benefits sinc

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