In accordance with the rulings of two federal judges on Friday, Oct. 31, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service will issue partial SNAP benefits for the month of November. The 35-day government shutdown was expected to force a delay SNAP benefit payments and impose politically induced hardships on individuals and families as they approach Thanksgiving and the holiday season.

The suspension which was to go into effect on November 1, will not be enforced as previously announced in an Oct. 28 online directive from the USDA, which stated: “Bottom line, the well has run dry … At this time, there will be no benefits issued on November 1. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats.”

The Trump administration maintained that it would not tap into its nearly

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