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Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a state disaster declaration for a food emergency on Monday to help replace federal food assistance cut off by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.

Current funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program remains frozen while U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked over how to pass a stopgap measure to fund the government.

U.S. President Donald Trump initially refused to use emergency federal funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing. However, two federal courts ordered the White House to use emergency funding, and the administration said it would partially fund the program. How soon that aid will start flowing to SNAP beneficiaries remains unclear.

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