The beneficiaries of CalFresh, California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), were beginning to receive their funds from the state while it still remained unclear when the federal government would begin to resume providing food benefits.

The funds loaded onto CalFresh users’ Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards were for the first week of November. And the state expects to issue the benefits for the rest of the month as scheduled for 5.5 million California SNAP recipients, the governor’s office said Thursday evening.

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“California will continue fighting to ensure that our families can access the food they need and deserve,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “As President Trump continues

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